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Because of the war on Gaza,

and the sign of mourning of the thousands of civilian murdered there, The churches in the Holy Land decided to cancel all

Christmas festivities.

Christmas has been cancelled. We'll go to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ.

Public Christmas festivities have been canceled in the occupied West Bank city as Israel

intensifies its assault on Gaza and arrest thousands in the West Bank.

We'll speak to a prominent Palestinian Christian theologian theologian in Bethlehem.

Then the United Nations Security Council is preparing to finally vote on a

water down resolution on aid to Gaza after the United States repeatedly push for delays, even though the UN is warning more than half

a million Palestinians, about a quarter of the population, face catastrophic hunger and starvation.

It's quite shameful and disgraceful to be honest from the American administration to look at the other side because they are complicit in this genocide.

They have a blood of Palestinian children on their hands

admittedly. This is in fact another Nakba with frequent serious signals of a genocide unfolding before our eyes.

Plus we speak to Sonia Guajajara, Brazil's first ever minister of Indigenous Peoples.

And so now we need to rebuild and strengthen public policies

in health, education, fighting racism, and environmental racism and being able to have more

specific measures to reduce the emissions that are causing these changes.

All that and more coming up.

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