Results for the news is that saturday night i'... translation from English to Arabic

last night, i'm at home, i'm sittin' up buck naked.
الليلة الماضية كنت في البيت، كنت عارياً

the news is that you move against athens.
-ان الاخبار تقول انك ستتحرك الى اثينا

the news is that he has returned to kolkata.
الاخبار هي ان قد عاد الى "كالكوتا"

and now the news and the news is that later on in this programme
والآن مع الاخبار والتي سنستعرض لكم فيها لاحقاً

the news is that hensel has perfected a vaccine against biological weapons.
الخبر هو ان هنسيل تمتلك لقاح فعال ضد الاسلحه البيو لوجيه

the news is that the partial prints at the crime scene match prints from a series of incidents.
الخبر مفاده أن البصمات في مسرح الجريمة تتطابق جزئياً

the good news is that the new budget is much more realistic, as it cuts spending by about 2% in nominal terms.
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and the news is that a little crack, which i'd seen in the ice between our tent and the airstrip, which was no more than an inch or so wide, has, overnight, widened to 20 metres.
وتُفيد الأخبار أنّ صدعاً صغيراً، الذي لاحظته في الجليد بين خيمتنا ومدرج الطائرات، الذي لم يكن يتعدى 2.5 سنتيمتر أو نحوه، توسع بين ليلةٍ وضحاها ليبلغ 20 متراً

no, no, the news is that if they were to detonate, say, the self destruct of a wraith cruiser, on just such a wafer thin crust...
لا, لا, الاخبار هى طالما ان هناك تفجير, اقول التدمير الذاتى لطراد الرايث فىهذهالطبقةالرقيقةمنالقشرة...

the news is that six months after being unjustly sentenced and after having presented the due appeals, the case file is still in miami and has not yet been passed onto the atlanta circuit court for revision.
وأول الأنباء هو أنه بعد مضي ستة أشهر من صدور الحكم الظالم وبعد تقديم دعاوى الاستئناف اللازمة، ما زال ملف القضية في ميامي، ولم يحل بعد إلى محكمة دائرة أتلانتا للمراجعة.

identical letters dated 20 february 2006 from the permanent observer of palestine to the united nations addressed to the secretary-general, the president of the general assembly and the president of the security council i wish to draw your attention to the speech of president mahmoud abbas, chairman of the executive committee of the palestine liberation organization and president of the palestinian national authority, delivered at the opening session of the second palestinian legislative council in ramallah on 18 february 2006 (see annex). i would be grateful if you would arrange to have the text of the present letter and the enclosed speech of president mahmoud abbas distributed as a document of the security council and of the tenth emergency special session of the general assembly, under agenda item 5. (signed) riyad mansour ambassador permanent observer of palestine to the united nations annex to the identical letters dated 20 february 2006 from the permanent observer of palestine to the united nations addressed to the secretary-general, the president of the general assembly and the president of the security council [original: arabic] speech of president mahmoud abbas (“abu mazen”) chairman of the executive committee of the palestine liberation organization and president of the palestinian national authority at the opening of the session of the second legislative council ramallah, 18 february 2006 in the name of god, the merciful, the compassionate “and their affairs are conducted by consultation among them” god has spoken the truth sisters and brothers, members of our second legislative council, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, may peace and the mercy and blessings of god be upon you! today is a momentous day in the life of our palestinian people, a day of great significance in the history of our nation. for today we witness the inauguration, in accordance with the constitution, of our second legislative council, chosen by our people in the west bank, the gaza strip and jerusalem in free and fair elections viewed by the entire world through the eyes of hundreds of observers and carried out peacefully from the start of the process to the announcement of the results. had any political organization or group been excluded or our compatriots in east jerusalem prevented from participating, the elections could not have been held. i insisted on full participation in spite of all the pressures exerted, and ultimately that insistence won out. i see among you here some who represent jerusalem and some who represent every palestinian political group. congratulations to our sisters and brothers members of the council on the trust placed in them by the electorate and my best wishes for success in carrying out the responsibilities they have now shouldered. on this occasion i would also like to pay tribute to the central elections commission and express my appreciation to it for discharging its duty with the utmost competence and responsibility. i wish also to commend the observers, both arab and foreign, for their role in monitoring the elections, and here special mention should be made of president jimmy carter. in successfully holding these legislative elections and the presidential and local elections that preceded them, our people have demonstrated their awareness and their maturity in conducting the democratic process. this is something the whole world should view as evidence that they deserve and are qualified to build their own present and future within the framework of the modern state to which they are entitled, under a pluralistic democratic system governed by the rule of law and the spirit and morality of the age in which we live, where every citizen, whether man or woman, enjoys the rights and liberties guaranteed by law. dear sisters, dear brothers, from the podium of your council, i salute our palestinian people both here at home and in the diaspora. let me reaffirm to every palestinian man and woman that our joy will be complete only the day when we obtain our freedom; when our independent state, with al-quds al-sharif as its capital, comes into being; when our prisoners are released; when the question of the refugees finds a just and mutually agreed solution based on general assembly resolution 194 (iii); the day when we realize the dream of the leader of our revolution, the builder of the first palestinian national authority, legendary president yasser arafat. i also salute the members of your council who are hidden behind the walls of israeli prisons along with thousands of our people's heroic elite. i assure them that we will spare no effort until they are set free and i see every one of those members take his seat on this council and every prisoner take his proper place in our society. ladies and gentlemen, our election results have brought with them a new political reality in which the hamas movement holds a majority in the legislative council. it is hamas, therefore, that will have the task of forming the new government. i look forward to the appointment of the person who is to undertake that task and the start of the customary consultations for that purpose. as part of that process, your council will elect its presidency office and form its various committees so as to be ready to welcome the newly formed government, its programme and its policy directions, until it obtains a vote of confidence. we look forward to the orderly completion of all these steps in the shortest possible time, because the tasks before you in the coming period are enormous indeed. from me you will have full cooperation and encouragement, because the national interest is our first and final goal, beyond any individual or factional interest. i would also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to our first legislative council, which, operating under the most extreme conditions, managed to pass a large number of laws and followed and monitored in every way possible the work of the successive governments. indeed, tribute is due to the work of those governments, too, which must be commended on all their initiatives and achievements. we hope that the new government will continue and complete that work and move forward in the realization of the interests and aspirations of the people who elected them and who will keep a sharp eye on their performance both in parliament and in the government. sisters and brothers, ladies and gentlemen, today, before our second legislative council, i would like, as has been the custom in the past, to present to you, to our people and to the world at large a responsible, clear and candid review of the early stages of our national experience. that experience has been difficult and complicated, but is also replete with major achievements, realized by the palestine liberation organization as leader of this people and the highest political authority for all its bodies and institutions. our achievements over that lengthy period would not have been possible had it not been for the emphasis of the plo on national unity, the use of the most effective means of struggle and the adoption of enlightened, well-thought-out policies dictated by the supreme national interest of the palestinian people and founded on the resolutions constituting international legitimacy. as a result, we thwarted the most serious plans aimed at annihilating the political identity and national rights of the palestinian people. the plo succeeded in taking our cause to every corner of the globe and to every people, until the doors of the united nations opened for us. there, in that forum, yasser arafat stood and spoke on our behalf, holding up an olive branch and calling on the world not to let it drop. expressions of international and regional recognition of our people, our organization and our rights poured in, creating a reserve of political support from which we continue to derive strength and an effective international presence. the same has been true when, together with our arab and muslim brothers and sisters, we have worked out practical political initiatives expressed in balanced decisions adopted by arab and islamic summits, placing the national rights of the palestinian people at the heart of the issues facing the arab and islamic world and addressing the world in the language of the age. this has afforded us an indispensable moral and political shield at every stage of our national struggle and political movement. the plo provided leadership throughout that historical period, despite the fact that its leader, its supreme command, its cadres and its institutions were outside the homeland. it faced harsh battles in its fight to remain in existence, carry on its mission and uphold the rights of its people. the plo and the palestinian revolution could not have survived and overcome the many attempts to crush them had the plo not undertaken, side by side with its unrelenting armed struggle, courageous political initiatives that imparted a qualitative impetus to the palestinian cause, rallying enormous support both regionally and internationally. as a result, the plo was recognized as the sole representative and the able and legitimate voice of the palestinian people, and the mouthpiece for their national rights. from this podium, which is a fundamental part of our national council, i wish to emphasize the need to complete the dialogue among all forces, groups and factions so as to revitalize our organization, renew its structures and enhance its performance in all areas. we began that dialogue long ago. now the time has come to reap the desired results. in this context, brothers and sisters, let us look back to another important milestone in our triumphant national journey: our courageous, historic initiative at the 1988 session of the national council in algiers, namely the announcement of the establishment of a palestinian state in exile and the declaration of independence, which was tied to our recognition of security council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973). this laid the foundations of the state we aspire to and defined its features and its content. it was a carefully thought-out initiative that raised the level of our recognition by the international community. this went hand in hand with the outbreak, in 1987, of the first popular intifadah, which contributed decisively to the adoption of our initiative. the world then began to deal with our people, our cause and our leadership as one state deals with another state. the palestinian peace offensive at the time thus took on a political dimension that went beyond its being a unilateral declaration: it became an international commitment for all those who recognized it, establishing full relations with the palestinian state on that basis. the cumulative efforts made in that political struggle paid off, moreover, when a major disruption of the international balance of forces occurred as a result of the collapse of the soviet union and the outbreak of the second gulf war and there emerged a need to work out new equations for stability in the region. had palestine not been present as a recognized state and as an organization embodying a strong representative political entity, the world, with its new forces, would have bypassed us: no one would have thought of us in the context of any regional or international arrangements. when the opportunity to demonstrate that presence was seized, the wheels of a new political process started to turn and there began an american-palestinian dialogue that had been ruled out for decades. next, the peace process was started in madrid. we are all familiar with its different stages, the interactions it involved and how it unfolded. while this was taking place, secret channels were being plied side by side with the non-secret ones, giving rise to the oslo accord and mutual recognition between israel and the plo. many things were said about that accord for the purpose of creating misgivings about it or obscuring its true nature with smoke and mirrors. in particular, it was said that the oslo accord had been concluded behind the backs of the palestinian people because the negotiations had taken place completely in secret. here let me repeat what i have pointed out on many occasions, namely that political activity behind closed doors is a well-known phenomenon in all or nearly all negotiations conducted between parties at odds. the results of the negotiations, however, are absolutely open and acquire their legitimacy from the need to submit them to the representative political bodies and obtain their approval. and that is just what happened when we presented the exact text of the accord to the legislative and executive institutions, which discussed it, voted on it and ratified it. since that time, we have accepted and respected the right of any individual, group or political force to object to the oslo accord. but we have not accepted, and will not accept, having its legitimacy thrown into question, because the moment it was ratified, it became a political reality to which we are committed, and we will continue to uphold that commitment. measuring objectively the impact of the oslo accords, we must say that, while we did not view them as containing everything we wanted, they did lead to the establishment of the first palestinian national authority in parts of the national territory. they enabled tens of thousands of our people to return to their homeland from exile and the diaspora. they resulted in the establishment of this council, which israel initially wanted to be an administrative council having no legislative, representative or political character. but we insisted on its being a structure closer in nature to the parliament of a state. we imposed the holding of elections as the method of choosing its members and developed its powers and responsibilities until it became what it is in our basic law, which serves as a temporary constitution until, god willing, we ratify the permanent constitution of our state of the future. although some consider the achievements realized at the start of the implementation of the oslo accord as modest, due to the fact that in the early stages israeli withdrawal amounted to only 1 per cent, israel subsequently withdrew from all our cities and the peace process was expected to result in the end of the occupation of all palestinian territory occupied in 1967 and the negotiated resolution of all permanent status issues in accordance with the same oslo accords. let me recall with you, sisters and brothers, how the extremist elements in israel became furious, assassinating israeli prime minister yitzhaq rabin at a time when we had barely taken the first steps. the fact is that it was not simply a political assassination, but a deliberate attempt to halt a peace process that was moving forward on track and replace it with a different approach, namely the denial of the palestinian partner and the imposition of unilateral solutions based on the logic of brute force and the creation of a de facto situation by force of arms, while going forward with settlement expansion. subsequent israeli policies revolved around a programme and measures intended to nullify the oslo accord, thus bringing the peace process to a standstill, opening the way for extremism and tearing down every effort that had been made towards creating a new climate between the palestinian and israeli sides. all this served to usher in the era of prime minister ariel sharon, who declared an open battle against the palestinian people, with systematic destruction of the structures and institutions of the palestinian authority. sharon built the racist separation wall, redoubled settlement operations in the west bank, tightened the iron grip on the palestinian people and the siege imposed on them everywhere and even beleaguered their president, until death overtook him. here i would like to emphasize that, together with our friends all over the world, we are following up on the causes of the death of our historic leader, the late president yasser arafat. the case is still open and will remain open until all the facts concerning the death of abu amar are brought to light. sisters and brothers, the israeli government has adopted a policy of unilateralism rather than negotiation. let me remind you that when prime minister sharon proceeded with the plan to withdraw unilaterally from the gaza strip, it was viewed by us as a surgical procedure aimed at scrapping the road map. we had agreed to the road map as an international initiative that included both mutual palestinian-israeli commitments regarding security and israeli commitments relating to the freezing of settlement activity and to military withdrawal. it provided for the holding of an international conference and a return to the negotiating table to resolve all the permanent status issues, namely: refugees, jerusalem, settlements, borders and water. finally, it was to lead to the end of the occupation, the creation of the palestinian state we aspire to and the establishment of a just and lasting peace. i would like to note for the record an objective reality regarding developments since the assassination of israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin: namely, that israeli extremism has succeeded in plunging us into a bloody cycle of action and reaction, creating a climate in which it is hardly possible for a political approach and negotiations to prevail in the conduct of the struggle. over against this, we cannot ignore the earnest attempts made, including at high levels, to halt the deterioration of the entire peace process, such as the sharm al-sheikh summits, the camp david summit and, most recently, the road map and the vision of american president george bush founded on the establishment of an independent, democratic and viable palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the state of israel. this is, without a shadow of a doubt, a historic development in the stance of the united states of america. within this context, and based on our understanding of the highest interests of our palestinian people, a truce was reached, providing an unprecedented period of calm that lasted no less than three months. this was followed last year by another period of calm that we are earnestly striving together to consolidate in order to create a suitable climate for resuming the peace process and returning to the negotiating table on the basis of international legitimacy and the agreements signed. sisters and brothers, members of the council, there is much talk, of a somewhat vituperative nature, about the authority's inflated administrative apparatus and its high financial cost. but can we ignore the fact that over the years of the intifadah, israeli aggression left devastating scars, both economic and administrative, on our domestic situation? the ranks of the unemployed were joined by tens of thousands of workers denied entry to israel, while private capital invested in the palestinian territory shrunk. the various economic institutions and sectors suffered destruction and losses as a consequence of the policy of collective punishment, closures, checkpoints, destruction of infrastructure, uprooting of trees and a myriad of other measures that turned the life of the palestinian people into a living hell. as a result of these circumstances, the palestinian national authority alone assumed all those burdens, shouldering responsibility for solving problems to which, once they started, no end was in sight. foremost among these problems is the task of absorbing the hordes of unemployed persons, especially university students, who graduate in the thousands every year but find no employment opportunities, owing to the weakness of the private sector and its low capacity for absorbing them. consequently, the authority, like it or not, has turned into the largest empl
رسائل متطابقة مؤرخة 20 شباط/فبراير 2006 موجهة إلى الأمين العام ورئيس الجمعية العامة ورئيس مجلس الأمن من المراقب الدائم لفلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة أود أن أوجه عنايتكم إلى الكلمة التي أدلى بها الرئيس محمود عباس، رئيس اللجنة التنفيذية لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية ورئيس السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية، في افتتاح جلسة المجلس التشريعي الفلسطيني الثاني، في رام الله، في 18 شباط/فبراير 2006 (انظر المرفق). وأرجو ممتنا تعميم نص هذه الرسالة وكلمة الرئيس محمود عباس المرفقة بها باعتبارهما من وثائق مجلس الأمن والدورة الاستثنائية الطارئة العاشرة للجمعية العامة في إطار البند 5 من جدول الأعمال. (توقيع) رياض منصور السفير المراقب الدائم لفلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة مرفق الرسائل المتطابقة المؤرخة 20 شباط/فبراير 2006 الموجهة إلى الأمين العام ورئيس الجمعية العامة ورئيس مجلس الأمن من المراقب الدائم لفلسطين لدى الأمم المتحدة [الأصل: بالعربية] خطاب السيد الرئيس محمود عباس ”أبو مازن“ رئيس اللجنة التنفيذية لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية رئيس السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية فـي افتتاح جلسة المجلس التشريعي الثاني