Michael link thank you so much michel for coming on im going to say that when you were appointed special rapporteur you probably didnt think you were going to be thinking of the illegal occupation in the context of a Global Pandemic how about is coronavirus in the occupied territories that alone gaza. Look at the very beginning it appeared opin when the crown of iris 1st hit in march it appeared that the the occupy palestinian territories were going to actually weather this extremely rather well in part thats because of a negative situation other such limited freedom of mobility. And movement with respect to other gaza strip in particular and that many you know a huge number of the palestinian population in the west bank is also extremely limited freedom of movement around behind the the wall and as really checkpoints well whats happened with respect to the 2nd wave that were experiencing now is that cases both in gaza the west bank and including East Jerusalem are rising exponentially
With an m16. I lived in the United States since 1975. And every time ive returned home to jerusalem things have gotten worse and worse. 40 years ago i met David Michaelis at link tv and he comes with west jerusalem and i come from west jerusalem, so we come from the same seat. But in reality, two different worlds. I was born in jerusalem and ive been living there all my life, since 1945. Five years ago i came to the United States to launch a tv channel. And thats how i met jamal dajani. He challenged me to think about solutions that hadnt been discussed until now. And one day we said, well, we should test it on the ground. The reality there is very harsh. But why dont we go over there and do it. We are here in a bubble. After sometime of working together with jamal i said lets do this in california. You only have to choose in that neighborhood what kind of latte you want in the morning. When i go there im always eager to go to my people, to my neighborhood. I want to have the least int
A lot to Sudanese Government because the country has been cut off from Foreign Investment largely because of being on the list of states sponsoring terrorism and this has resulted in a shortage of hard currency which makes it very hard for the country to import basic commodities such as fuel and we and that has resulted in shortages in petrol stations and bakeries its also lead to inflation of more than 200 percent making many from families many of them who live below the poverty line struggle to get 3 meals a day now sudan says that this also means that the u. S. Administration has. D. Link the issue of being delisted to normalizing ties with israel that is something that the u. S. Has been pushing sudan to do since u. S. Secretary of state my point was that if the country in august in the previous august now sudan says that it is not in the position to actually normalize ties with israel because it is not a mandated government or an elected government lets not forget that this govern
Pandemic earlier this year now the government there is introducing new measures for restaurants and bars at restaurants they have to shut at midnight a maximum of 6 per table bars have to close at 6 pm and not just there last year for example are worried about the fact that over the weekend they saw record daily new cases which was the best part of 2000 on saturday theyre now limiting gatherings to 12 people thailands Prime Minister has issued a conciliatory message to protesters saying rallies which were banned are now permitted as long as there are peaceful thousands demonstrated in bangkok for a 6 day to demand private resignation they want a more democratic constitution as well as changes to the monarchy but it. Well the government has to do is protect the monarchy because this is the duty of all time people we request just these few things and we request the protesters to demonstrate peacefully. Theres no plan to expand the area of the state of emergency the governments trying to
Into effect the Security Forces started moving. I believe he told gate in lagos several different witnesses recorded footage of what appeared to be security personnel shooting at protesters who were blocking a major highway a number of people want reported killed. It began as peaceful protest to demand an end to Police Brutality. And for 2 weeks the government struggled but still to come protesters. Their demands among others include far reaching reforms of the police and the prosecution of officers accused of extrajudicial killings torture and disappearances no cure is going through it says we have been protest in we have not had any reasonable results which is what we want. But you know. What i know im really listening to. Was running. Every day so yeah yeah i dont buy that very much and i said well you know i believe these well im going to do. And see the lawmakers are lining up behind some of the protesters demands i will not sign off on the 2021 budget that does does not include f