good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
[bombs exploding]. To the war in the middle eas as expended. Israel is no longer just fighting a Battle In The South against hamas, a second front i opening in the north. Hezbollah in lebanon is intensifying their campaign. E their goal Scimmers Thomas this made israel with rockets and mortars. [rapid gunfire] [bombs] [people shouting]. Israel just any casualties already this weekend from the iranian backed hezbollah forces. Israeli Military Bases are unde assault. Hezbollah snipers also neutralizing israeli Surveillance Cameras on the border in creating blind spots. Appearing to gear up for a full on invasion. And israel is responding, evacuating towns and villages near the border. And proactively striking hezbollahs installations. [explosions. Israels promised to destroy hezbollah if they formally ente the war. Service for israel israel. If hezbollah fully engages israels northern flanks, they would be forced to divert resources from the south, reaching their ground action in gaza, a
palestinians in jerusalem they say they were inside the mosqu as part of a ramadhane tradition of sleeping overnigh inside that sacred place, as you, said considered the third holiest site in is mom so very tense days right now in what should be a sacred wee as people mark easter, passove and ramadan. i believe that you were there when some of that wa going on and there were number of arrests made b israeli police and most of those people have been released? yes, that is right. so something like 400 arrest on the day on wednesday in the early hours when israeli pleas first went into the mosque most of those people have no been released, but a numbe being held on various differen charges. it s largely yellen young, people young men who wer inside the mosque at the time. and if you ask these palestinians they say part o the reason that they had rocks fireworks inside the mosque is they were concerned abou
re back talking with imam feisal. thank you for being with us. there are two r mosqu already in that region of ground zero. yours, as you pointed out, is about 12 blocks away from the actual ground zero, what people call the hole the ground. i live downtown. neve seen a lot. then another one that s just about two blocks away. why do you think this structure s causing all this controversy now? well, there s a certain amount of anti-islamic sentiment in this country. why now? and we have seen it in the attacks upon mosques in various spots in the country in the last several weeks. so it is clear that this issue is not just about our center, which is an attempt to create peace between muslims and but this has aroused a certain anti-islam sentiment which is unfortunate in this country. but we need to look at it. weeeabto have a discourse
we re losing it. you re talking about the politicization of this. and yesterday i had a conversation here and everye agreed that everyo needs to take a step back and take a deep breath and not call people names and listen to both sides. now, in listening m to both sid, hat would mean that muslims would have to listen to the people who, youknow, don t want thise proposed mosqu and center near ground zero, and the same thing, the people who do want it would have to listen to the muslim community. i want you to take a listen to what was said this morning on this week with christia christian amenpour. take a listen and we ll talk about it. one of the reasons they do have those anxieties is that motems have failed, moderate muslims have failed to make the face for why there is nothing to fear about islam. when major nadal hassan open fires on a groupf fellow fold