levels that are totally disproportionate to the threat and the problem the prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is still fighting for power claims that this tool is more effective than isolating the whole country this is an effective tool to locate the virus an isolated instead of isolating an entire country israel is not to meet it has joined china me ran in this population trekking journey and it's no secret that our cell phones contain more information about ourselves than even we know of course it's information that can be used for both good and evil which is why everyone's fighting to excess said the question remains are you willing to give up your privacy to contain the virus and while the authorities stop or tracking once the pandemic is over. we asked people in israel what they think of the new tracking measures. 1st corner must i say that everything needs to be done to stop the disease the shows that netanyahu makes every evening at 8 o'clock in the news is because of his legal situation i'm afraid after this one time that the government 40. 4 days. it will be. slipping away to usi

prime ministerenjamin netanyahu appeared to be short parliament, by thrts,n based on nearly final results. israel has held three elections in less than a year, and this could mean a fourth. there has been more bloodshed between turkey a syria. n o turkish soldiers were killed in clashes todayrthwestern syria. and, a syrian war monitor grp reports turkish drone strikes killed nine syrian soldiers. turkey is trying to stop a syrian offensive that has drivel a n refues to the turkish border. >> ( translated ): we are a group of people that has an enemy after us, an enemy that has driven us to the borders. now that we are at the borrs, the only solution before us is to enter turkey, and from turkey atto europe-- any country e can go to. we have nowhere else to t. >> wooufkey already nssts some 3.6 million syr and accuses the european union of not doing its fair share tohe . now, the turks have opened access to their border with greece, where netrouble erupted today. greek police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds attempting to cross.rk a tuh official claimed one person was killed and

arthel: israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been tested for coronavirus as he shut down the country as iran battles the worst outbreaks outside of china. trey yngst in jerusalem. trey. >> trey, arthel, netanyahu closed restaurants, cafes and movie theaters in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus here. prime minister also announced that the israelis would be use antiterror technology to track coronavirus patients and israel reporting 100 cases as self-quarantine mandatory for anyone entering the country. arthel: we will go to new york governor andrew cuomo, he's giving us an update. as of now 2 deaths in the state of new york. >> slow the spread of the virus to a rate that the healthcare system can manage, slow the spread of the virus to a rate that the healthcare system can manage. you are not going to stop people from being infected. there's also percentages of what percent of the population will be affected. 40%, 50%, 60%. you will not be able to control that, nobody thinks you can, but you can make efforts to slow the spread because the real question here is can yo

the third time may be the charm for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. exit polls show netanyahu has a narrow lead in israel's third election in less than a year, but it's not clear if he will be able to form a majority coalition in parliament. netanyahu seeking his fifth term in office is due in court this month to face corruption charges. all right. coming up next, we'll remember actor james lipton, who knew the biggest stars and their craft as well as anyone. wow! that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. and one gram of sugar. wityour money almostes offered seems like it's frozen. but not here. with capital one, you can open a new savings account in about 5 minutes and earn five times the national average. open one from here. or here - in a capital one café. plus, there are no fees or minimums on savings och because that's how it should be. this is banking reimagined. w

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and he says it is because of the situation that is previous opposition to benjamin netanyahu holding office as an indicted prime minister someone pacing 3 corruption trials he's had to set that aside and people may talk about broken campaign promises that his cool promise to quote the state of israel about everything remains the one that he's abiding by in all of this he has taken quite a lot of flack over this not only from his former partners in the opposition but also from some voters and commentates its center you know allowed the the prime minister to stay in office he will benjamin not you know will stay in the sun 18 months and there are humans exactly how. i screwed ours crisis and one developed overnight there was a major funeral thousands of people attending a funeral of a rabbi in an ultra-orthodox area near tel aviv's hundreds actually at cereal itself thousands in a procession there are now talks about trying to quarantine some of the areas because he did well 6 social distancing and so many of them extremely high numbers of cases very false about that are they from west

a new lockdown went into place overnight, benjamin netanyahu allowing people to leave home for groceries, you see people lined up to stock up on food and other supplies and they will be able to leave for medical emergency. otherwise people have to stay within 300 feet of their residences, all this is the israeli military and police are patrolling streets, enforcing new efforts across europe, we do know that in spain the country extended their state of emergency is the country surpassed the distal for china, 738 f were reported in spain, total of 3500 people losing their lives as a result of this virus, madrid is the most affected region. the deputy prime minister tested positive for the virus and in italy hospitals are still overwhelmed. infection rates are slumming, the peak may break as early as this week. italy has 70,000 confirmed cases. >> asking people to stay at home and shutting down, is buying time and reducing the pressure on health systems but on their own these measures will not extinguish epidemics. >> you heard from the world health organization asking everyone around the w

willing to establish a national emergency government it comes after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu made the offer on a nationally televised address saying a new temporary regime would save the lives of citizens he also ordered most schools in the country to be closed. the top of visor to iran's supreme leader has been infected with corona virus it comes as the country has asked for billions of dollars in loans from the international monetary fund to help fight the virus the health ministry there says the number of infections has now passed 10429 people have died but there are concerns the figures could be much higher as the government struggles to manage the spread of the virus he has more from to one. several weeks into this global pandemic and countries in asia in the middle east are talking about the gains that are being made in trying to stop the spread of covert 19 but in iran there are daily reminders that this country is struggling to stop the spread to get a grip on the spread of the current virus throughout the country in a letter to the united nations secretary general an

michel barak mitchell where are we in the political horse race at the moment any prospect that netanyahu might get over the line this time well there's a saying in a row we've been in this movie before and we've actually been in this movie twice before in a year so you know it's not clear what is interesting about this election as opposed to last 2 is right before the election netanyahu looks like he's leading which may not be the best place for him he likes to scare people that he's going to lose he's losing the election if they don't get out and vote now they have a different tactic because they seem to be leading in the polls that they have some momentum going and now they're fighting for people that either will stay home because they think his victory is assured or they'll vote for one of the smaller parties in the block because they believe he's he's going to be the prime minister he has the best chance anyway his his main rival benny gantz as well as being marginally behind in the last few days has suffered a bit of a blow to in the last couple of days extraordinary seeming dirty t

and it's back to the pulse of voters nature and as prime minister benjamin netanyahu tries for a 3rd time to form a majority government. have you're about to feel look cold of what's to be late winter i want as many of you with you at home should look at tokyo for example although we still got a northerly breeze in the snow visible in north korea navy for 2nd coming across the sea towards northern home sure the temp has now dropped in tokyo to 10 whereas it's not been that levo despite the snows been on the slopes to your west the rain is gone through there's not much rain left and again northern honshu is to focus snow at height snow levels low levels of the current there. for china as more rain gathering is gathering in the southwest and the higher ground across in vietnam as well it will spread eastwards it might just affect hong kong it's not really in the yangtze we would expect to be at the moment i mean beijing the breeze is enough to keep the arrows of the creatives to 10 degrees been there for a couple of weeks not months or wet season rain is pretty widespread her in the da

because other developments in the last few hours is this man the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is entering self isolation after one of his aides tested positive so now the prime minister is expected to be screened for covert 19 in the coming hours we're looking for developments on that it's evening now in china but in the daytime people were heading back to work with a virus was 1st detected were one which has been on the street corner now for 2 months and in the u.k. they're making preparations ahead of an eventual peak in infections field hospitals are being set up around the country and this is extraordinary $20000.00 health workers are coming out of retirement to help so here is the team with us this hour harry forces in west jerusalem as saying update on prime minister netanyahu also rory chalons and brian in the u.k. starting though in madrid matter where are these numbers i mean as i pointed out yes it is a slight decrease but still $800.00 plus for 3 days in a row. yes are you saying you were saying it to try to 1000 people in spain has tested positive from 19 this is 2

settlements will stay in place in the weeks leading up to elections israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been announcing more units in israeli settlements in the occupied west bank including israel slim both netanyahu and his rival benny gantz have promised to annex israeli settlements scholar say israeli politicians are trying to appeal to voters who are shifting increasingly to their right the 2nd of them of course there's competition between blue and white party headed by benny gantz and the likud party by netanyahu who inside small weiland against palestinians members of can spotty are not providing an alternative to netanyahu but they're trying to be more radical than him when it comes to the palestinians and the arabs. with the u.s. and israel having the closest relations ever palestinian officials say they're pushing european countries to recognize the palestinian state to proceed israel lonely and alone in such a fight since everybody is there to please trump and everybody is there to please not and you know and obviously in the hype of these so-called normalization that arab

polls for a 3rd time in less than a year will they break the deadlock between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main challenger any guns. and in the bundesliga leipzig are held to a draw at home and missed the chance to put real pressure on the leaders. i'm sumi so much gonna thank you for joining us a new migration crisis is taking shape on the european union's eastern frontier of thousands of migrants are trying to find a way from turkey into greece about after the turkish government said it would no longer try to stop migrants from crossing into the e.u. but greece is pushing back into supplying its military to protect border points using tear gas to turn the migrants back athens fears a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis and it is suspending asylum applications for a month valent to return anyone who enters the country illegally now many migrants who have attempted to reach the e.u. are camped out in the turkish border province of a d.n.a. some are still hoping to cross into greece others plan to turn back. unable to cross into the e.u. a group of refugees returns exhausted to this

settlements will stay in place in the weeks leading up to elections israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been announcing more units in israeli settlements in the occupied west bank including israel slim both netanyahu and his rival benny gantz have promised to annex israeli settlements scorner say israeli politicians are trying to appeal to voters who are shifting increasingly to their rights the 2nd of them of course there's competition between blue and white party headed by benny gantz and the likud party by netanyahu one side's more weiland against palestinians members of can sparty are not providing an alternative to netanyahu but they're trying to be more radical than him when it comes to the palestinians and the arabs. with the u.s. and israel having the closest relations ever palestinian officials say they're pushing european countries to recognize the palestinian state to palestinians feel lonely and alone in such a fight since everybody is there to please trump and everybody is there to please not and you know and obviously in the hype of these so-called normalization that a

thing as a citizen of israel and given what has been said by both all 11 of the crisis and benjamin netanyahu when he was talking about the support of only 47 zionist parties supporting benny gantz essentially ruling out the vote of more than half a 1000000 you supported the anniston is ready joint missed an important message from the president about how arabic citizens of israel should also have the votes counted in the press. turkey's president has threatened retaliation if a ceasefire in italy province is broken the deal was agreed to by russia and turkey last week or 2 and says there's been small violations but he expects moscow to take action. whatever there have been small violations of the cease fire we are sharing these developments with russia and compliance with our agreement and we expect measures to be taken we will keep our word until the end as long as the others show the same sensitivity but if the others do not keep their promise we will never shy away from giving a much harsher response. to the us what joe biden has cemented his front runner status in the democratic party's r

this was largely seen as a referendum on netanyahu with his trial on corruption charges just two weeks away. in syria tensions escalate between russian backed syrian government forces and the turkish backed syrian rebels, syrian forces shot down a turkish drone in turkey downs two siri warplanes, turkey announced it will allow refugees in the country to migrate into europe, a major change from the country's previous policy of containment. and russia vladimir putin proposing more constitutional amendments that mention god and define marriage as between a man and a woman. a ban on giving away claimed russian territory such as crimea which moscow annexed from ukraine. sleep this amazing? that's a zzzquil pure zzzs sleep. our gummies contain a unique botanical blend, while an optimal melatonin level means no next-day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep. >> a fox news alert from america's news headquarters, two tornadoes touching down in central tennessee including one that caused severe damage in downtown nashville. the tornado stayed on the ground into hermitage about

and white party, benny gantz, to form a new government in the latest blow to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. netanyahu's likud party received more votes than gantz in this month's election, but gantz received endorsements from enough lawmakers to narrowly hold a majority support. the united states is pulling out of several key bases in iraq amid heightened tensions in the region. two americans and one briton wewere killed and over a dozen others injured in a rocket attack on the taji military base near baghdad last week. the u.s. responded b by launchig retaliatory airstrikes against iranian-n-backed militia sites. on saturday, rockets struck a base h housing u.s. troops. secretary of state mike pompeo warned monday the u.s. wouould take self-defensive action if attacked. "the new york times" is reporting senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and other republican senators have been privately contacting conservative federal judges to urge them to retire, so they can be replaced while republicans still control the senate and trump is in the white house. over 90 republican-nominated judges wo

back opposing sides in the syrian war which began back in 2011 the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is corruption trial has been to spurn for at least 2 months because of concerns about coronavirus meanwhile efforts to form a new coalition government have resumed but the discussions are expected to last for one day because of the virus. sunday marks a year since $51.00 worshipers were killed the 2 mosques in new zealand special prayers were held on friday and flowers are being laid outside the mosques in question which an australian man is due to go on trial in june on charges of terrorism up next it's rewind i will see you 1st of. all new counting the cost we go behind russia and saudi arabia's oil prices bust up and find out how low the oil prices will go. default on its debt for the 1st time we can on the bailout china's great facial recognition surveillance counting the cost analysis. hello and welcome to rewind. back in 2014 liberia was locked in a desperate struggle to control an epidemic of the ebola virus journalist sorious samura is from neighboring sierra leone and in a re

polls showing that netanyahu two seats of a majority. and we end with longtime msnbc host chris matthews. "hardball"aving his program after accusations of inappropriate behavior. he says they reached the decision mutually apologized for making comments about women's looks. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm viviana hurtado. this is bloomberg. alix: thanks so much. and the g7 communique coming out here, saying they are ready to take action, including fiscal tools where needed, but no action yet. touch,ies firmed just a and equities around the lows of the session, yet still in positive territory. ready to take action, including fiscal tools. they are monitoring the situation and will fulfill their mandates, but nothing also far. here we go. potentially, we are going to see coordinated action for growth and stable markets, yet nothing officially delivered. coming up, sergio ermotti's next job. that meanst and what for succession

is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu has issued a state of emergency. the population is being ordered to stay at home or face heavy fines. israeli researchers are using artificial intelligence technology to develop new testing methods for coronavirus. we have learned in washington donald trump made a decision to put off the g7 summit that was set to take place in june at camp david. this will be a teleconference where leaders will skype into this important meeting in an effort to stay in their home countries and help civilians who will be recovering from the coronavirus outbreak. jillian: to the story, coronavirus hitting one family especially hard in new jersey, and they are all passing away days apart after contracting covid-19. the other children are hospitalized fighting the deadly virus, two on life support, 20 relatives awaiting test secretaries. two senators selling off stocks after the market plunge. kelly leffler sold millions following a private senate meeting. the spokesman says baseless attack and investment decisions with multiple third-par

public gatherings limited to ten people as prime minister benjamin netanyahu says not only have restaurants been closed but all leisure venues in an attempt to keep this from spreading. there are rumors that public transportation may be next to shut it down. israel is staying on the forefront. as of this morning, the ministry of health says there are 250 confirmed cases. that's a relatively low number. there are no confirmed deaths from coronavirus. a few days ago that number was 100 cases. it is rising very quickly amid fears it could be worse. let's not forget in the middle of all of this, something that affects the economy, military, health system, there is an ongoing political crisis. there hasn't been a fully functioning government here since 2015. the coronavirus may be able to do something the politicians could not, which is brett them together. they're calling for a national government, unity government to lead the country in this difficult time. and that at least feels like what the majority of the country wants, but it's much easier to say that than to actually get there. that bei

prime minister benjamin netanyahu is stopping short. the ministry of finance is advising against it fearing even greater economic damage. and that's the regime that ship's slows the economic regime and sanction, 129 deaths on monday alone. "the washington post" shows massive burial pits for coronavirus victims. a very shocking piece of this are officials from now health organization who returned from the ground say the cases there may be as many as five times were actually being reported in the international community. >> trace: and it's already exorbitantly high. >> the coronavirus and just yesterday the world health organization began testing for coronavirus, and that's something everybody should be doing right now. since december of million people should be displaced. the population is extremely vulnerable and has just spent a long winter fling homes. the implications and they do have limited medical supplies and that's its tenth year of civil war as the regime shows no slowing down its final major offensive. what an important thing

. >> woodruff: prime minister benjamin netanyahu finished slightly ahead of gantz in the march second election. but, gantz has won endorsements from a slim majority of israeli lawmakers.an back in this country, five people, including a police officer, were killed overnight in a shooting attack on a gas station in springfield, missouri. police say the gunman crashed his car into the station, opened fire on customers, employees and police, and finally, took his own life. joe biden and bernie sanders inuare off in a debate domed by coronavirus. approaches, we get an on-the- ground report from arizona. tamara keith and amy walter break down the politics of the. pandemic and much more. >> woodruff: we turn now to the democratic race for president. with the delay of ohio's primaro , three remaining states will hold critical primaries tomorrow: ilnois, florida and arizona. ahead of tuesday's vote, former vice president joe biden and vermont senators bernie sanders met on the debate stage last night. lisa desjardins has our report. >> desjardins: a first of its kind debate, in a time of natio

today's voting was triggered when neither prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his chief political rival could build a governing coalition last fall. >>> utah's first medical marijuana dispensary opens today, a day after the state health department's cannabis went online. 14 locations could be up and running as early as july. those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 2nd. >>> good monday morning, everyone. we do begin this half hour with pete buttigieg's historic presidential campaign coming to an end. >> he is urging party unity and vowing to help put a democrat back in the white house. buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate to make a serious run for the white house. his departure follows a commanding victory by joe biden in the south carolina primary. >> the remaining candidates are now looking ahead to super tuesday with contests in more than a dozen states. abc's richard cantu has the latest on the race. >> reporter: pete buttigieg, the former mayor of south bend, indiana, whose presidential campaign propelled him to strong finishes in iowa and new hampshire, offic

i remember being in that room when ambassadors from irene and prime minister benjamin netanyahu both had remarks. now these are just small examples, just a few glimpse of harmony and still much more progress to be made but i think these antidotes suggest a growing attitude, is shift among some of israel's neighbors and the more the middle east embraces israel the brighter the future will be. that is true for the entire region. [applause] as i said earlier there's some around the world who still refuse to see israel's shining example respect them as a nation for the number one sponsor of anti-semitism in the world islamic or republic undoubtedly the worst, the regime continues to soak hatred of jews to serve their own corrupt and through textbooks, state media propaganda, the poisoned declaration of the unelected leaders. how sad given iranians give century to jews during the holocaust and help them escape persecution during iraq. it does not have to be this way. let me be clear, the world knows, the world knows the noble iranian people do not hate israel or jews or any other religiou

and other things brian: i just have something to report i'm sure you know, but it looks like benjamin netanyahu because he came in contact with someone who tested positive looks like he's going into quarantine for i imagine the protocol is the same in israel for a couple of weeks we'll watch that which brings me to the international stage and i'm just wondering it turns out according to the washington post , russia, iran, and china are going through a sophisticated disinformation campaign essentially blaming us around the world for our bad response and for actually causing the virus using the same principles they used to infiltrate our 2016 election. we're the best at this. how are we going to let these countries get away with that and do we have a counter-strategy like the truth to tell the rest of the world? president trump: number one you don't know what they're doing and when you read it in the washington post you don't believe it. i believe very little when i see it. i see stories in the washington post that are so fake and are so phony. i have stories that are such fake stuff and that's n

netanyahu mobilized his supporters. when the poll came in, it was clear he out-cmpcagned his opponent benny gantz. i went to israeli towns within range of palestinian rockets frombe gaza to understanamin netanyahu's political base. this man drove me to the border. ex-army, now head of security in his town, he voted for benjamin netanyahu. he showed off the massive project to build an underground shsld 40 to 80 met deep all along thgaza border. across theire, more than 2 million palestinians live in gaza under a blockade since hamas took power there in 2007. it is poor and working-class, netanyahu territory. she said he woodwind big-time. on-- would win big-time. only the likud party and activists had tinm at the pollg station. few miles away, adele voted for the opposition she believeson negotiati, not granddghter safe.ake her her village backs onto the border with gaza. she has had friends killed by palestinian rockets. in tense times, they exp t >> last week at this time we were running back and foh. jeremy: netanyahu

that will be benjamin netanyahu. benny gantz will say how can he possibly spend the next two weeks forming a coalition government while also preparing .o go on trial, and that will be talked about a l but if the figures turn out to be current, h will almost certain be handed that mandate, and he will be trying incredibly hard to put together that magic number, 61 seats, which is all that is needed to form a government he potentially has come closer than either of the two leadership hopefuls have in the last yea ros: very interesting. hthank you very m indeed. that story will play out in the next few days and weeks. now to u.s. politics. amy klobuchar is out of the race for the democratic presidential nomination, and we are told that she will be joining jill biden at h rally -- joe biden at his rally in dallas later, i'll head of super tuesday 114 states vote on who they would likeo see taking on donald trump at the presidential election in it has been a monstrous couple of days because pete buttigieg is also out of t

un development and humanitarian chief in palestine jamie mcgoldrick scan the israeli prime minister netanyahu is going to virus justice chief of staff to former israeli prime minister ehud barak also more coming up in today's going underground but 1st let's go straight to gaza one of the most densely populated areas on earth tackling coronavirus dr yasser i would you may director of the gaza community mental health program joins me now via skype yes and thanks so much for joining us so what is the situation in gaza israel is claiming it has sent you hundreds of testing kits thousands of or at least 1000 protective suits by the world health organization to save people save 2000000 people arguably from coronavirus. thank you very much and the conditions as like this now we have only tool fortunately only 2 confirmed cases of corn of errors so around the same time we have about 1300 people who are in quarantine centers the these are mainly people who are right from outside because this trip and we have about $3000.00 people who are of our asked requested to all be staying at their houses and lik

edelstein and his likud party the party led by benjamin netanyahu because adelstein had failed to allow for a vote which would have allowed the opposition to put its own person as speaker and start legislating in a way which may well have harmed benjamin netanyahu is grip on power and of course benny gantz has throughout his just over a year long political career made his brand almost entirely about removing from office replacing with a stable figure himself prime minister that he's called corrupt poison to democracy and has said that cannot serve while indicted well all of that now looks to have evaporated because benny gantz appears ready to serve in a unity government an emergency government to tackle the coronavirus epidemic with benjamin netanyahu continuing as prime minister the reports suggest that gantz may well get a very senior job in the government foreign minister or defense minister that netanyahu may well make way or promise to admit to make way in 18 months time we have yet to see any of those details emerge will be concrete there are also reports that it might just be a

still ahead here on al-jazeera it's back to the polls for israel is prime minister benjamin netanyahu tries for a 3rd time to form a majority government. in india more children and live on the streets than any other country in the world is education the 1st step to breaking the cycle of poverty. how there is more snow to come from north korea possibly the far north of japan is not as cozy walls was full enough of moisture for this to be significant for vladivostok down through north korea's it circulates off shore that temperature was just a big drop or we'll see a big drop in it in japan that had to 10 in tokyo 17 on sunday in sunday's that's a bit of a chill but rain around but snow in the high ground in northern honshu in her car there however rains gone away and is going to way for most of china's redeveloping in the southwest it will have an effect on the temperature in hong kong which is dropping again went down to 22 with a bit of a breeze coming off from the northeast but inland you pick up a lot of rain particularly the high grand junction at the border with vietnam hanoi cou

come to some kind of conclusion it has been interesting in the last week or so we've seen benjamin netanyahu for the 1st time in a while his likud party taking even a narrow lead in the opinion polls but still those polls not showing enough of a decisive margin either way to get to the magic number in the israeli parliament the knesset 61 required seats required to form a coalition government i'm joined by a particular analyst and pollster mitchell barak mitchell where are we in the political horse race at the moment any prospect that netanyahu might get over the line this time well there's a saying in hebrew we've been in this movie before and we've actually been in this movie twice before in the year so you know it's not clear what is interesting about this election as opposed to last 2 is right before the election netanyahu looks like he's leading which may not be the best place for him he likes to scare people that he's going to lose he's losing the election if they don't get out and vote now they have a different tactic because they seem to be leading in the polls that they have some mo

be able to be forms to form a government we're used to seeing on this day in the day before benjamin netanyahu running around the country giving all sorts of messages via facebook twitter social media of all kinds warning his voters that he's on the cusp of losing and trying to get them to the polls trying to scare them to the polls in effect this time around it's a very different kind of message a much more confident sounding as in you know saying he's just one seat and he's really parliament the knesset away from having that magic number 61 seats which would allow him his new could party along with their prospective coalition partners to form a government and so that is the message that he's giving is voters to try to influence turnout and turnout does seem to be up as of 2 pm which is 3 hours ago local time so now it was at 31.8 percent that is up on the most recent elections it's the highest since 2013 and as he said in that sound bite coronavirus shouldn't scare voters he was saying it doesn't seem to be indeed there have been 16 separate special voting stations with tents and special pro

and others to join him in such an administration now netanyahu had made the same call just a few days ago saying that gantz should join a netanyahu led government to try to tackle the coronavirus together so how will netanyahu respond to this idea of a gansler government we have to wait and see presumably not positively nothing in the last year would suggest that he's ready to give up his prime ministership just yet especially in a time when he still is facing trial in 3 separate corruption cases carrefour said lives and westar aslant many thanks indeed harry. the 1st man ever convicted by the international criminal court has been released from prison if supporters gathered outside the jail in the capital of the democratic republic of congo to green's thomas lubanga it was found guilty of 2012 of recruiting child soldiers more but matter he reports. to his supporters thomas lubanga left mccullough prison and. the 2 others he was considered one of the most dangerous move and what's now the democratic republic of congo. you know me better than these 3 international criminal court judges

has suddenly resigned as speaker of parliament now that paves the way for netanyahu his rival benny gantz to put one of his allies in the job as he tries to form a government but a delay in choosing a successor is already throwing up obstacles to the opposition's plans harry forsett reports now from west series of them as israel's government to its highest court headed towards an unprecedented showdown the man at the center of the crisis announced he was leaving the stage yuli edelstein told the knesset all but emptied by coronavirus restrictions that he was resigning rather than follow a ruling to hold a vote on wednesday for his successor. by god the supremes court decision harms the sovereignty of the people and the sovereignty of the knesset in a manner without precedent. the supremes court decision undermined the foundations of israeli democracy and the will of the opposition accuses him of having damaged those foundations by denying their majority its right to elect a new speaker and start driving parliamentary business. protesters outside the knesset said the political crisis

michel barak mitchell where are we in the political horse race at the moment any prospect that netanyahu might get over the line this time well there's a saying in hebrew we've been in this movie before and we've actually been in this movie twice before in a year so you know it's not clear what is interesting about this election as opposed to last 2 is right before the election netanyahu looks like he's leading which may not be the best place for him he likes to scare people that he's going to lose he's losing the election if they don't get out and vote now they have a different tactic because they seem to be leading in the polls that they have some momentum going and now they're fighting for people that either will stay home because they think his victory is assured or they'll vote for one of the smaller parties in the block because they believe he's he's going to be the prime minister he has the best chance anyway. a new center right leader is so late as latin american country to turn its back on leftists will orders are hoping a new conservative government led by luis are better less

to put its own person as speaker and start legislating in a way which may well have harmed benjamin netanyahu is grip on power and of course benny gantz has throughout his just over a year long political career made his brand almost entirely about removing from office replacing with a stable figure himself prime minister that he's called corrupt poison to democracy and has said that cannot serve while indicted well all of that now looks to have evaporated because benny gantz appears ready to serve in a unity government an emergency government to tackle the coronavirus epidemic with benjamin netanyahu continuing as prime minister the reports suggest that dance may well get a very senior job in the government foreign minister defense minister that netanyahu may well make way or promise to admit to make way in 18 months time we have yet to see any of those details emerge will be concrete there are also reports that it might just be a 6 month emergency government dances saying that he's doing this out of consideration for the fact that israel is an emergency that it's time for statesmanship and p

and netanyahu claims victory after israel's latest election but it does not get to have the numbers for a majority. and this board to pass and then pick minister says the tokyo game that could be delayed until later in the year but olympic bosses insist the event is still on course to begin in july despite the corona virus outbreak. turkey has shot down a syrian warplane over it live in the northwest as government forces try to advance deeper to capture the last major rebel held area oh it's the 3rd syrian fighter jet downed in 3 days turkey's escalating campaign is threatening to bring it to direct confrontation with the syrian government's ally russia the violence is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians 8 people were killed in an explosion in a blip city elsewhere fighting is intensifying in the south it's happening in the raw despite a cease fire that's been in place there since 2018 there are reports of at least 5 people have been killed. well hashem about it joins us now from have time i on the turkey syria border hashem just bring us up to speed what's happening there on

netanyahu's right wing bloc needed to form a coalitiony government. and much could hinge oneveral thousand votes yet to be counted, including four israelis in self quarantine because of possible exposure to the coronavirus. ♪ ros: we are here in the newsroom our lead story is that the globat death for the coronavirus has been named as 3.4%, far higher than seasonal flu. health experts are saying the numbers don't take into account unreported cases. the grant crisisn the greece-turkey border continues to intensify. today, the eu offered to help increase in the number of peoe who are trying to shift from turkey into greece and so into the european union. the increase was caused by turkey deciding last week that it would not stop migrants who are trying to ach the eu. thousands of people are stuck in an area between greece while this is resolved. visited the area tor officials you can see just there, urszula or lion, the european commission president and the president of the european council. two senior firereshey were briefed by the greek army and the

he values the bounty from the lake and the strength he sees in netanyahu. he thinks his father, who survived auschwitz, would have approved. he has a number in his hand from the holocaust. and my father tell me one thing — don't trust nobody in your life, trust only yourself and do everything that is good for you. the crew unites around fish, not politics. this man is voting for the centre—left opposition, worried that the cost—of—living is pricing young israelis out of their future. a lot of young people want to move from israel. it is something that is happening. but hopefully something will be ebetter, i don't know. better, i don't know. amid the electoral pyrotechnics, retired general benny gantz, the opposition leader, has had to deny claims from the meta nyahu camp that he made sex videos. neta nyahu, he says, is trying to lie and cheat his way to victory. the prime minister is claiming credit for donald trump's so—called deal of century — an attempt to end the conflict on israel's terms. it allows israel, in defiance of international law,

could party netanyahu is own party a senior aide to him has been very dismissive of jews from a middle eastern background is right he do saying that they've been successful in whipping up hate among that community and that the camp is united by hatred circles the blue and white party has been making the most of that as well as that benny gantz has been saying that look good is preparing to issue force rumors about coronavirus in blue and white sympathising parts of the country so it's become an extremely scrappy and unpleasant last few days as for netanyahu self of course he faces trial on 3 corruption chip cases starting just 2 weeks after polling day he'd begun this campaign talking about an ex in parts of the occupied west bank that has been to some extent fading into the background of all these other issues that have come up and he instead of doing his traditional tactic of warning his supporters that is on the cusp of losing and trying to motivate them to the polls in that way with the recent relatively positive polls he's saying. he's nearly there just a couple of more seats in t

might find himself that he's actually acting prime minister but for sun and non grata from here on in netanyahu faces trial in 3 corruption cases has called for an emergency unity government with blue and white led by him but such an outcome is far from certain and now he faces the prospect of legislation challenging his ability to stand in a future rerun election is the number of 1000 cases climbs he's also facing criticism over a long term problems in the health system a government report this week said israel was ill prepared to deal with an epidemic on wednesday evening tougher measures came into force designed to spread. the load on the system israelis told to stay home except for short walks are 100 meters from the doors among the exclusions journeys for essential work groceries medical care and political demonstrations there may be more of those to come. out west jerusalem . where again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. senate has unanimously passed a historic 2 trillion dollar coronavirus rescue package that barely is to help frontline health workers and to keep

exit polls gave netanyahu's seats in parliamen out of 120 his main opponent pledged to keep fighting. netanyahu still faces an upcoming trial on corruption a power vacuum in iraq worsene today after caretaker prime minister announced he's stepping down. his designated successor withdrew sunday, blaming political leaders for blocking reforms. this follows weeks of deadly protests. turkey's army has sent new reinforcements into id province after new clashes. turkey shot down warplanes. today a turkish soldier w children watched as turkish convoys crossed into the area whilpresident erdogan warned syria to pull back. >> those who have not learned their lesson and continue to threaten us must come to their senses. if they doet notat, they will have no heads on their shoulders. judy: greek border police battle to cross from turkey.gees trying at least one person was killed in a crossg attempt. turkey is letting the refugees move in a bid to force more support from the european union. the u.s. supreme court agreed to hear a case on whether obamacare is lawful. a report has declared part of

way of projecting power and control over palestinian surroundings israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly promised to annex parts of the occupied west bank palestinians say the only way to fight israeli expansion plans is by protesting them on the ground there pretty melters you know the occupied west bank. israel's president has urged the country's opposing political leaders to come together in a unity government to avoid a further election from minister benjamin netanyahu is center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's vote the 3rd in less than a year is main rival benny gantz also has no clear path to majority despite the support of the left wing alliance and the joint arab list president riven rivlin has until next week to pick a candidate to form a government for a force it is in west jerusalem he says against his bid to form a minority government just became more difficult. if benny gantz can shore up the support of all those within his own block plus the support of all 15 of those palestinians really parties from outside the government not join a coaliti

netanyahu, whose corruption trial is due to begin later this month, described it as a victory against all the odds. his mainbe rivnny gantz, told supporters he shared their painpp or dinted. china has accused thef nited statesllying after washington said it would reduce the number of chinine journalistmerica. the u.s. wants to limit the number of reporters working for chinese state-run orgaons to 100, a reduction of 60. it follows china's o expulsi three journalists from "the wall street journal." you are watching "bbcicorld news am." still to come at tonight's tprogram,nadoesear through tennessee, destroying homes and claiming more than 20 lives. tens of thousands of people remain without power. laura: diplomatic efforts are intensifying in turkey and syria tohalt the crisis inyhe besieged cf idlib. officials who have been to iib say they need for basictems like food, water, and sanitation. paul adams reports from the turkish-syrian border. paul: the battle for idlib rages on, momentum changing almost by the day. around this town, the russian-backed syrian army pushing days of setbac

mr netanyahu, who leads the right—wing likud party, is seeking a record fifth term in office. he is due in court later this month on corruption charges, which he has strongly denied. dozens of homes in east yorkshire are still under water after the river aire overflowed its banks following unprecedented rainfall in recent weeks. the water remains several feet deep in places and it's expected to be a few more days before people will be allowed back into the worst—affected homes. 0ur correspondent danny savage sent this report. the rain which caused all this flooding is now a distant memory, but the problems it created go on and on. in the village of east cowick, 69 homes have been flooded. you need waders to reach many of them. we've been watching every day and thinking, another foot, another foot, another foot, and thinking we were going to get away with it. and then when it actually goes in, you relax then, it's done, it's finished. you've nowt to fight. this is sodden, isn't it? yeah. and when you lose the battle, this is what is left. people's homes, their sanctuaries, de