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President Donald Trumps controversial decision to recognize the roost them as the capital of israel the Palestinian Group hamas has called for an uprising israels president lavished praise on president arms assertion but the palestinian president says hes rallying International Opposition to the moves which he called an unacceptable crime. It was a day off unrest in many parts of israel thousands of palestinians took to the streets to protest against u. S. President Donald Trumps decision to officially recognized jerusalem as israels capital. And in many parts of the country protesters clashed with Security Forces. Israel is preparing for more violence in the coming days and is deploying additional troops to the west bank but many fear that the situation could escalate as the Islamic Militant group hamas its followers to start an uprising a first intifada against israel. We demand resistance in the west bank so we can answer this shameless aggression and i repeat shameless aggression the american decision as an act of aggression against our people addicted aeration of war against the Palestinian People and the holiest sites of islam and christianity. After seeing me. Yet. Israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu in contrast while trumps announcement as a historic landmark and said of the countries were considering following the u. S. Lead. We are already in contact with other countries which will issue is a meal of recognition i have no doubt that the moment the American Embassy moves to jerusalem and even before then there will be a movement of many embassies to jerusalem the time has come. For you. But the u. S. Decision also prompted to brought a diplomatic backlash Turkey Russia and the European Union condemned the move saying that recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel and hopes of resolving the conflict peacefully and that its divided the International Community the u. N. Security council has an emergency meeting about the matter. Declared friday a day of rage and many fear that the conflict about jerusalem could spark a new bloody war in the region. And we can get reaction now from. She joins us now shes a palestinian lawmaker and a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organizations executive committee she is in ramallah mr showing very good evening you were an op ed for the New York Times today where you call trumps decision a huge mistake why. Us its a huge mistake because hes not on the undermining the trenches or destroying the very foundations of peace is destroying america and what situation when it is justice by finding such appalling clues and we become complicit in the crime is also inflaming Public Opinion will provoke will people out the region and beyond and we had supporting extremists and this certainly will have its our relentless extremism and violence than we are and of course by giving an example of violating International Law and you were doing that. All the strings Work Together but. Arab countries that have predictably reacted in horror to this decision but the size the usual condemnations theyre not suggesting any solutions do you feel that a palestinian still at the arab world has given up on the palestinians at this stage when we tried very hard that many arab leaders did call donald trump and straighten up to go down. And theyre all now that this is going to affect them and the fact that and to get some of the markets standing of course and influence in the early but it seems he was bent on doing a. Good chunk of his closest allies in the region he also gender. Bending with their own people so everybody has taken representation again. Which in itself is a good way of sponsibility. In that sense its not arabs telling and the fact that the u. S. Now has exposed. As being in full support of the occupation and of the most extreme right wing hard line very very government and. And in a shadowy palestinian lawmaker in a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization executive committee thank you. All right and we can go now to d. W. The very own my ass waiter she is in jerusalem for us she joins me on the line right now maya when we talk about jerusalem we talk as if its a united a city described as the facts on the ground whats the demographic reality of jerusalem. The jerusalem is a very old city that despite everyone talking about it being visible between east and west actually very hard to divide theres no river or a barrier or a clear road between east and west in terms of demographic theres about eight hundred fifty thousand people who live here around three hundred thousand of whom are palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and that is an official legal status they hold a resident of East Jerusalem which means theyre not Israeli Citizens and they cannot vote in the knesset elections the elections for the Israeli Congress so theres quite a presence and theres quite a community here mostly in East Jerusalem and today we saw many of them especially the youth of the community out in front of the damascus gate at the old city shouting protesting that jerusalem is the arabs are Islamist Palestinian and that takes a very much opposed to show we say to this read the declaration from President Trump and my own what do you very sorry for interrupting you there what are you hearing about the situation the Current Situation in the palestinian territories or of people being reacting. Right so weve heard about these these clashes happening in bethlehem and around the territories and we know that police and the i. D. F. Are gearing up for possibly more violence clashes incidents happening tomorrow because it is friday so friday prayers will be happening today in jerusalem if things were fairly calm but tense and we still have a heavier than normal Police Presence out on the streets there are some police on horseback who have been writing back and forth in front of me and my colleague just sort of intimidating the people in this neighborhood its its been a tense day theres been some clashes some scuffles some people arrested one person was injured in front of me not a good situation and likely to depreciate in the next day or so last winter reporting from jerusalem thank you. Ari want to get you some more background on this and for that im joined now by our very own william know our glu craft hes lived in haifa and has reported from the west bank and were very happy to have you here will to help us understand a little bit more about the situation on the ground in jerusalem we just heard my describe the situation in jerusalem we often hear people describe to say talk about west jerusalem and East Jerusalem who lives where and is there a freedom of movement between these two communities of course you know in syria theres freedom of movement there are no laws against you know restricting access freedom of access freedom of movement of course the police and Security Forces from israel often impose restrictions when they see theres a Security Threat on the palestinian population there which which of course restricts their movement quite a bit theres also the Economic Perspective the west western part of jerusalem is the modern part of jerusalem is more built up where most of the israeli jews live whereas the east is more of what most people have in mind of of jerusalem the old city but we see behind us the holy sites and this is where poor people live mostly the theyre the forty percent of jerusalem of the recent population who are palestinians with a residency but not citizenship. As you know in a reaction has said you know has called for an uprising there and intifada are there any other options for palestinians in jerusalem that they can resort to democratic options that they could use to challenge whats happened now for instance weve had a long history of showing the violence does not work it is bloody on both sides its tragic and it should always be called out and condemned there are democratic options. With residency status palestinians in jerusalem cant vote for the knesset for the israeli prime they do have municipal Voting Rights they could theoretically change the political situation in jerusalem if they wanted to of course they have been boycotting since ninety sixty seven municipal elections seeing it as submitting to the occupying power being israel that they dont want to participate in of Voting System from what they would consider. The enemy so they do have options available to them if they so choose if they if they want to band together and create a new kind of strategy because violence certainly doesnt work and in any case like any Liberation MovementResistance Movement there are economic means. You need to put pressure on the occupying power that you are trying to make a change to get it to affect them. To make your problem their problem until that happens not much is going to change well youve written a thesis examining the minoritys position in in the israeli state the position of arabs really is basically israel talk to us a little bit about this decision thats been made now by the us will it actually change the facts on the ground for palestinians living in jerusalem or Arab Israelis right so of course remember that a quarter of israels entire population of the jewish state is not jewish and as we said up to forty percent of drusillas population is not jewish it is palestinian. For them though i mean this is more of a symbolic gesture regardless what donald trump now says what u. S. Policy is what International Law says what the National Community thinks israel has been treating jerusalem as its unified capital since one thousand sixty seven so for them i dont think much has changed there its just one more symbol and symbols do matter but its one more symbol of of the hopelessness that they feel and sense on the streets every day in their lives and its a region of course where symbols in hers so very much very briefly if you can well how does this torpedo the Peace Process or whats left of it you know weve been seeing a lot of headlines that this affects the Peace Process i wonder what Peace Process were talking about there have not been talks for years the palestinian side is fractured from hamas and fatah its fractured geographically between west bank and gaza with two very different situations there and on the israeli side theres very little interest a need from a political perspective to strike a deal with the palestinians because the israeli side has what they need they have a military power and the economic power and connections to the west. Thank you. All right want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. The European Union is taking the Czech Republic hungry and poland to court for failing to take their fair share of refugees on their twenty fifteen plan all the countries have taken in almost no refugees in the past two years despite an e. U. Agreement to relocate some one hundred sixty thousand people from italy and greece their governments accuse brussels of limiting their national sovereignty. With only two weeks to go till catalonia holds new elections more than forty thousand pro cattle and protesters have gathered in brussels to urge the e. U. To support their drive for independence from spain theyre also voicing support for their deposed leader has put him off he is currently in brussels and says he will stay in belgium because he is afraid hell be arrested if he were turns to spain. Turkish president richard tiber erdogan is going to today official visit to greece the first by a turkish head of state in sixty five years the two neighbors have normalize their tense relations in recent years but there are still disagreements over major issues like the island of cyprus control of parts of the agency and the migration crisis. And weve got some breaking news to report right now coming in germany may be one step closer to forming a new government the countrys social Democratic Party has just voted in favor of opening talks on continuing the governing coalition which chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives for the next parliamentary term Party Chairman martin shields asked his fellow social democrats to give the green light for preliminary talks schultz initially ruled out the option after the party performed badly in septembers general election will now says the success of these talks will depend on what parts of the Party Program can be adopted as government policy. All at last to discuss and thankfully weve got to charlotte a pot who is at the convention what does this mean will it be a new government in germany so. Well were one step closer but actually no when near having a new government in germany of anything this they showed that its going to be a very lengthy process and the devil really liason the details let me walk you through so basically today the social democrats voted that they are going to attend preliminary talks with manacles conservatives to form a grand coalition after that there in a circle will vote on going into socalled exploratory talks and then they will have another Party Convention where they will decide to go into Coalition Talks and in the end they will have their hof million members of the social democrats vote on whether to adopt a final version of these Coalition Negotiations and then in the end will head into an new government so a very complicated process that is going to take a long time and the social democrats wont make it very easy for conservatives ive talked to Deputy Party Leader before and he confirmed that. What are the main conditions set you are asking what do you need the christian democrats to do to make a grand Coalition Work for you or a grand coalition is not what we were really have as the aim or we should just seek whether there are other possibilities as minority government changing majorities or things like that but it depends on the issues we definitely need to change our european policies much more active fathers towards europe antinationalism more progressive. More growth oriented already and its also we have to secure that in the digital time labor is good labor so that people can. Live off on their own what theyre earn and we need changes in our Pension System we have to do something about health care there are a lot of social issues we have to change we have to do something about global justice the same issues as mr cobb in the dresses them or to door Bernie Sanders in the United States those are issues young people are excited about and we need more young people to join the parties and to become more political and to do something against the right wing problem isnt which we have all over europe. Therefore we have to have many changes and the problem is in the conservative party is very weak and they have recourse in the leadership. And the very end part of the conservative party but also and im going to project and therefore i think the chance would be very high that we would be able to get lots of these things through and be successful with that and i hope my party will be smart enough to follow the path. That we at least try it we might see a continuation of the grand coalition mistake not very much thank you very much for this interview. So what i heard there were a lot of red lines it will show so im going to go along with all this. Well the demands are pretty bold from the social democrats but we have to say chancellor merkel really wants to make this work she doesnt want a minority government which would be an option if the