But its not enough to meet the needs of people there. More than 31000 palestinians have been killed since the war began in october. Honey mode has more about the situation, and rough uh, as around the dam begins, is that people were hoping that the beginning of from about and will be somehow in the household with the sci fi or the or that will put them off the hook and relieved in the, from the ongoing stress and fear of the ground and vision throughout the city. But unfortunately, as of the past 24 hours in all the hours leading to the 1st day of ramadan, more atrocities committed across the gall, this through. But unfortunately, the either the prices are quite a rocking voice. There is actually no basic supplies in the market just makes it a little different than the past few years with people we used to do at the start from, along with the rest of it. These and decoration and lights and lanterns for the children the time. Now this seems to exist and everybodys just watching and, and going on. And im more of a through revive of mode right now. Then occupied East Jerusalem is really forces and block the entrance to the flux. A most compound, some worshippers prayed outside, others were trying to enter the comp downward beaten by Israeli Soldiers at the gate entrance. Deluxe a compound is the 3rd holy as sites and muslims since october. The 7th is really, authorities have limited. The number of people allowed in billing. Marks has more from occupied is true. So some videos seem to indicate that essentially people will not being allowed through such an entrances towards the most inside bill city. And then some occasions being pushed by wipe face using the tongues bills that you know being decorated this year in lights of events in gaza. And the place security presence last night across jerusalem extremely, extremely intense. Large numbers of vehicles on the streets just where we are and like fight East Jerusalem, and large numbers of police on the streets of the old city itself. And 23. 00 fighters have taken over another town in the eastern democratic republic of congo. This video shows the moment before fighters entered and sees the town of a windy and north cable province. The arm group has displaced thousands of people as it advances towards goma. The regional capital on saturday Doctors Without Borders condemned an attack on a hospital in the area, and urged all fighters to protect the medical facilities. The candidates in senegal, who were excluded from the upcoming president ial election or going to court to ask for the vote to be postponed. Several politicians, including the son, a former president of july, 1 wanted pushed to jude. The opposition accuses ruling issues as the Ruling Party Candidates of bribing, the constitutional counsel judges to keep watch off the list. 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The news continues here on alpha 0 after about 4 seeds of this court to stay with the on the voice of david, ben gray in declaring the establishment of the state of israel in may 1948 the. 2 the ball forward declaration was in letters sent by British Foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour. A member of the british house of lords, lord dropped the child. On the 2nd of november 1917. The, the letter sent to a leading figure in the purchase. Jewish community over a 100 years ago had repercussions which even its authors cannot have imagined the, which ever its really intentions twins on to have a profound impact on the middle east. And its people and its, its that still resonates across the region today. The in 1914, the soldiers were fighting on the battlefields of europe. In the 1st world war, the allies, britain, france, and russia thought the central powers of germany, austria, hungary, and the Ottoman Empire for 4 years. But the land and sea work was not the only valuable ground. Muscle was also the flex behind closed doors as allies conspired. How to be drawn maps to their own advantage when the conflict eventually see sir, mark sikes for the british and french, one source p. Cool for the french plots and how to divide the arrow blends of the Ottoman Empire. Assuming it would finally follow dislikes, pico agreement, nancy quickie to divide it into french and british tiers of influence. Friends taking most of the bones, southern anatolia, and the muso area. While the british extended their control over the southern live on expanding eastwards to bus dad and boston and all the non between their weeping goals and the french territory. Historic palestine tends to part of the Ottoman Empire, was a bone of contention and would be put under International Administration that police call say on the day or night bus, that called a bus good to mom does not want it, but its a book. Well, thats good to follow that buddies, teen that falls either tightly scrutiny off by the students. They dont really tell a stroke to that is the stronger bodies think that the ice box screwed up by just doing it or like you, my pause. You cannot just trust her. Cant just trust to that, blah t men. I dont tell you something or does she do the crate . I mean that im not sure that, that done that you on your database because that is the developer. You are the finding of keep off. Was it that brought up on quite a while with us . How to . Thats a lot can be a, but i can let me when i come back here. I think the british felt that there had not been enough government involvement, including the sites, the co agreement with the french and then that process they had not really protected their interests well enough for a post world war era in which the British Empire would continue to seek to be a dominant force in european affairs. And so really officials across whitehall, including mark sikes himself, felt it was a bad deal. That had been just an act of paperwork he liked miss edit and the people not to have it. So you need one of your not to just, i mean the whole yeah. From how on the data for the scene when you, when the home. Yeah. I knew we should see from the scene. Ok. Ill take on a fence. Well, i dont have to have and theyll have them enough who are let me click on a and i many of class and i many look at the then before. And its a huge significance that when theyre making these discussions, juice and sinus and not discussed juice when not to feature in the new caught taco, see it, them at least, which was to be based on the idea of the arab nation. The sign is in was the movements supporting the establishment of a jewish homeland in the area. It defined as the historic tonight and of israel. The movement was active in early 20th century london, especially be because of the persecution of jewels in russia and eastern europe. Theodore heard sol had found a design is movement in the late 19th century. But jewish people in western europe had no to us to support it because they were integrating quite successfully into society. Zionists believed that all jews should some day return to that country. One of the problems was that palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire was not clear that it wanted massive jewish immigration into palestine. And the British Government offered to let jews move unimpeded in great numbers into uganda if they wished. Um, but in any event it really didnt happen. And it didnt happen because a majority of scientists felt that hurtful was selling them out. And that the only place for jews to move back to at least conscious design is choose to move back to was palestine. In this, i think britain began to look on design. This movement is a possible partner in justifying or read negotiations. Other agreement with the french, you see for britain, a simply to claim territory against what theyve already concluded in an agreement with friends. Could create diplomatic problems to the british. But if they were to make a claim to palestine, not out of self interest, but in order to advance a great historic ideal of the restoration of the jewish people to the legal homeland. That this could justify. Busy an adjustment of the terms of sites pico, in a way that the french would accept the british wanted somehow. Uh and, and more and more increasingly the so that the jews held the key to winning the war. And so they had to figure out how to bribe the jews to support the sir. Mark sikes had succeeded in drawing the line he wanted from acre in the west to cook in the east, but 1st time in government, this was not enough. The british for using the Jewish National movement to secure ca this time for themselves is this is what highlights then is really going to find open ears and 10 downing street in the for an office in the Colonial Office. And its paving the way towards that critical decision in november of 1917. And so i think you can direct, you can draw a direct connection or between britain, the southern acknowledgment of zionism as an idea and an ideal. And what they were dissatisfied with the terms of sykes. Pico hi invites them and was a chemistry lecturer in manchester who had become a prominent member of the british scientist movement. He was politically well connected and rub shoulders with senior figures and government. So hi, im vitamin was russian by birth, he was a chemist. And then he joined the zionist movement. He climbed in the zionist movement. He moved to Great Britain before the war, well before the war, maybe 10 years before the war began. He was not before the war, very well known in the english zionist movement. He was pretty well known in the world. Zion is federation, but he was by no means the most visible zionist when world war one began in Great Britain. Weitzman nature wrote in his memoirs about having been introduced to protest, government minister Herbert Samuel samuel was to wish, but vitamin was apparently concerned that he might be anti zionist. However, Herbert Samuel turned out to be extremely receptive devices and went onto right in official memo in 1915, sitting out a number of different possibilities for palestine and the jewish people. The town was the huntsman hicks e. N, for who work on the name of fluids and the abyss . Yes, it was who it cut them. Was a color as well as the lumina new is little fill in the from the time have allow me a lot, a hello, a know who, where, where the, who did the, who yeah. Knew marquez mosher cool man. And brief on the cut. The cut off a little cool, matt and not sure but the scene with all of the environment and see and how to have that steam. I left them to my left and hope see in the late who d o. C a and she may a brief on the 15. 0, lets see it a book. But if somebody had only a who, the comment was. Yeah, and you can, but he didnt find willing either is in whitehall or in the Colonial Office for schemes that involved the establishment of a jewish state in palestine. Britain was really concerned with 2 things by the time that the 1st world war had broken out. They blended with the board 1st and foremost, this was an imperative for the survival of britain at its empire. And secondly, they wanted to ensure that coming out of the board victorious, that their empire would benefit from the victory. So at this stage, i invite simmons and Herbert Samuels ideas about the rights of the jews to settle in palestine did not find much sympathy in the corridors of power in london. At disappointed fights monroe to a friend asking whether there wasnt at least a discussion to be had about what he called the chance for the jewish people. I realize, of course, he went on, we cannot claim anything. We are much too optimized for it. What did they do, however, was to throw together vitamin the russian, jewish immigrants searching for a homeland and refuge from persecution. With Herbert Samuel lords rothschild for members of the british jewish elite, established in society, and part of the political and capitalist class. So it isnt for the most part across all as a community, it was actually in the minority, but certainly most of all within the jewish or late because its threatened the notion of them as a 100 percent committed members of pursue society. And this was complete and thats my for somebody like every montague to become secretary of state for india. For him, john is in mrs. West nightmare, the idea of the jews, and not satisfied simply with being citizens of britain or other countries around the world that are always willing to go back to the end of his route. For him, he wanted to demonstrate that the jews a prince in the 1st and foremost british a simpleton, to remember that for people like rock child designers and had actually been a threat. You see the elite in british jewelry had fought for generations to gain acceptance. And British Society, it was only with the arrival of this, really in the 19th century, the jews entered parliament and could rise to become Prime Minister. And for people of high finance or banking interest, the really elite of the Jewish Community of britain, their struggle to demonstrate their place in British Society when the design is and with his claims, the jews were a people the part and should be a nationalist movement in their own right were an asa besetti lamb, but he yeah, nice talking to you and how to see the vehicle off the body. Yeah. How to get ahold of the when he cannot stuff ive done many gets it. I would definitely be the whole the fee or but id be havent been to havent get a hold off. Yeah, i do have to shift that and i missed you a bit of funding for the money, but i thought id be i have, i mean if of bosh who, one of us have the have you my i said how to say here the what i said x vitamin levine share a much shoes. A lovely little mind to listen to anita, might the facility keep building the list of breed t u, haul it and then with the 2 in a coma, vitamin roche, like thats mostly, but instead of seem to shoot the theme, kids fights when that makes the difference. And i think he was probably unique in his ability to persuade, leaving british figures that the jews were, in fact a vast subterranean influence which they were not that old jews were zionist, which was far from the truth. And that therefore, the t to winning jewish support was to offer them palestine vitamin talked up that degree to which the jewish communities supported. Zine has them in order to get his message across to the government. But for the british, it seemed to be about self interest. About winning the war. Recognizing zionism would be closely linked to gaining global jewish support for this objective on which it saw its future resting to the british motives for supporting scientists. And where do we compile it down to 2 elements of british self interest at that time. Not an emotional interest in time to assume or a love of jews and the jewish plights, and the desire for the return of the jews to the holy land. No, for very specific self interest matters of policy. They will have festival own of the British Government agreed that they wanted to mobilize behind britain and the allies. This idea of jewish power in the world. They were like all of the different policy lights in the wall believers in the notion, the jews with tremendous influence in the corridors of power around the cloud. If the British Government appeared to support sign, assume they would, we know the well to re, to the side and know that entitled to finish, were convinced that sign is in it was really at the center of the jewish house in may. 1916 sir. Mark sikes had agreed to secret deals with the french sykes, the co would form the basis of the future carpet of the old Ottoman Empire. So immediately turned his attention to palestine to part of the Ottoman Empire and how to use scientist and dish. Altima knew for the french formal contact between the British Government and design. This followed. He immediately phoned Herbert Samuel and told him about the plan and Herbert Samuel vin phone. Hi m vitamin and vitamin brought with him ne home sucked hello. This meeting took place on the 11th of april 1916. It took place that moses gaster is house and made a val, and gaster wrote in his diary, afterwards how proud he was at this meeting, which he thought was the most important meeting that had ever taken place in the history of zionism had taken place at his house a 0 one, mark sikes, the i me its out of. Ive had a can still hear me. Oh well she for some of my augusta and i know who attended and we must hit the button jelia who the best buy them a lot to do it. All right, the one who in the, in the army so far, north of all who in the site got out of couldnt unload your emotions. Guest of a quickly understands that sikes is looking