elections commission. he has served as the legal counsel and policy adviser to the governor of virginia, the attorney general of virginia, the associate general counsel to the university of virginia, and general counsel to a number of political organizations. his experience covers a broad range of policy oriented subjects, including federal and state campaign finance laws, ethics laws, and election administration. we're glad to have him with us as well. and another former commissioner of the federal elections commission, bradley smith. professor smith is the founder and chairman of the institute for free speech and is the josiah blackmore and shirley naught professor of law in columbus, ohio. he previously served as commissioner of the federal elections commission, including vice chairman in 2003 and chairman in 2004. thank you, chairwoman. sen. klobuchar: thank you very much. each witness will now be recognized for five minutes for their opening statement. we will begin with the honorable mr. potter. mr.

commission is expected to announce the winner of saturday's parliamentary elections shortly the main opposition and the ruling party both claim victory on sunday. for the 1st time u.s. health regulators have issued recommendations for people who have been fully vaccinated against covert 19 the guidelines are for people to weeks after their 2nd dose of pfizer and medina jobs and the single dose johnson and johnson vaccine the centers for disease control says fully vaccinated people can visit each other in doors without masks or social distancing they can visit other unvaccinated people who are living in the same host and are at laurel risk of severe infection without masks or physical distancing ans they can skip quarantine and testing if they come into contact with someone with calls at 19 and they show no symptoms from miami and gallacher explains what these guidelines mean for people living in the world's worst affected country. well these are century are quite long awaited guidelines but let's give you a snapshot of what's going on in the u.s. at the moment something like 30000000

the in korea election commission a constitutional so that's what we see right now most of the results have come in and a lot of us the latest that just love contested the election must have no known their fate and the end all things we are waiting for just for a few dozen seats that's around $32.00 seats left to be announced by the election commission which is by the way it's on the way now. ahmed there was food is all violence because what happened after the presidential election people was still one reads have any of those been realized. yet the concerns are still there the concerns are will go in by the history of elections in this country from 2010 the presidential elections the. referendum is 2016 and the procession actions not yet that was boycotted by the opposition we've seen also today in the run up to the legislative elections step in tension in the air and even on election day cases a lot of court in various voting to succeed in ivory coast although there are minimal and observers say that these are not enough to impact the overall outcome of this result however people here

commission that they will not accept a situation whereby the election commission is colluding with the governing party to rig this election that's the situation right now and a lot of people this is what a lot of ivorians fear. some kind of instigation of protest or claim of winning or counter claims of winning the election from all political parties just before the election commission and also as a result it's in the process of doing that yesterday a few results came in and they were declared right now it's been going on since 14 g.m.t. and we expect back before the end of the day or the whole results will come in. a prominent muslim politician has reported they died meanwhile off to being arrested of the moment by security forces his cause of death is unknown police have used to guess and live fire on sunday to protest is have turned out despite the escalation of violence. on the caribbean island of hispaniola relations between haiti and its wealthy a neighbor the dominican republic have been historically difficult and now the dominican government has announced plans to build a wall

the election commission says it hopes to announce when is in print for hours election officials say voting went well across much of the country although they said voting started late in some areas because of voting machines multifunction there are also some skirmishes in a few places but officials say not enough to motivate. opposition leaders who boycotted last december's presidential polls are warning against irregularities have brought people to a loss they are not but i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place peacefully and that there is no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidate the governing party aims to win $148.00 seats in parliament enough for a working majority but the opposition want to stop that from happening. having stayed away from the presidential election in december and early c.s.a. the opposition me struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get moved in bloodless let's now speak to a

commission that they will not accept a situation whereby the election commission is colluding with the governing party to rig this election that's the situation right now and a lot of people this is what a lot of ivorians fear. some kind of instigation or protest or claim of winning or counter claims of winning the election from all political parties just before the election commission and also as a result. thoughts also to come here and al-jazeera including pope francis visits iraqi regions once held by isis and ask christians to forgive and look to the future. and president biden's administration is considering a full withdrawal from afghanistan by may 1st and a greater role for turkey in the peace strategy more in that state that. hello there we've got a lovely plume of warm weather across north america now just coming a rod out of the deep south up across the plains and just pushing up into the central part of kind of into atlanta tobar actually can see that the southerly winds that are coming in here and that's been lifting those temperatures up to what 11 celsius there in winnipe

commission that they will not accept a situation whereby the election commission is colluding with the governing party to rig this election that's the situation right now and a lot of people this is what a lot of ivorians fear. some kind of instigation or protest or claim of winning or counter claim self winning the election from all political parties just before the election commission and also as a result it's in the process of doing that yesterday a few results came in and they were declared right now it's been going on since 14 g.m.t. and we expect by before the end of the day on the whole results will come in. relations between hazy and its wealthy a neighbor the dominican republic have been historically difficult on the caribbean island that they share now the dominican government has announced plans to build a wall between the center chapelle explains why. this neighborhood is known as little haiti it lies in santo domingo the capital of the dominican republic on the eastern half of the island of hispaniola about half a 1000000 people from haiti on the western side live here but

it never occurred to them that the federal election commission set up to police how we run campaigns would be made a partisan entity. they could have done it then. now we're in a 50-50 senate and a narrowly majority in the house and this audacious move wants to turn the judge of our democratic process into a partisan prosecutor? talk about shame. if anybody ought to be feeling any shame around here, it's turning the fec into a partisan prosecutor. the majority controlled by the president's party to harass and intimidate the other side. that's what you ought to be ashamed about. over in the house administration we're having, administration committee we're having an example right now of how that could happen. the democratic majority is trying to overturn a certified election result. i won't ask how many of our friends on the other side here just argued in the last month and the month before that certifying a state election was the goal, senator, it's over after certification. apparently not in the house. of course, the constitution gives the house to determine who will sit there, that

commission came down hard on both sides insisting that the authority to announce the election results and declare candidates winner rests with the election commission and 13 to sue anyone claiming to have won this election right now here you know which of course is a ruling party stronghold things up fired we are in the market now and things are going on peacefully as if there was no election or those no tension as witnessed yesterday so maybe they are certain that this is opposite this is going in part to stonewall and the confident that nothing is going to happen oh the feeling across because it may be the threat of violence is ebbing away or lee thank you for that live in abidjan ivory coast's. in other world news in myanmar local media are reporting that 2 people have been killed after police fired on protesters in the northern town of michonne our shops and factories have closed in some cities as trade unions call for a total economic shutdown to protest against a military co after more than a month large crowds of protesters are still gathering in many cities security forces are

commission that they will not accept a situation whereby the election commission is colluding with the governing party to rig this election that's the situation right now and a lot of people this is what a lot of ivorians fear. some kind of instigation or protest or claim of winning or counter claims of winning the election from all political parties just before the election commission and also as a result it's in the process of doing that yesterday a few results came in and they were declared right now it's been going on since 14 g.m.t. and we expect before the end of the day the whole results will come in and that's what voters are waiting unctuously waiting to see what happens a lot of people are afraid that violence may break out following the announcement of the results but we wait to see how things pan out from now amended correct me if i'm wrong but hadn't told sides agreed to accept the results of these votes in an attempt to avoid that violence that followed the presidential election. exactly they all did and unfortunately that's the situation in most parts of africa west afri

in every state, makes the federal election commission a partisan commission. it will no longer be bipartisan. so that's the power grab we're standing up to, to my friends in georgia, they had the highest turnout in the history of georgia. we had 150 something million people vote. so every time a republican does anything we're a racist. if you're a white conserve of testify, you're a racist. if you're a black republican, you're either a prop or uncle tom. they use the racism card to advance a liberal agenda and we're tired of it. hr1 is sick. not what they're doing in georgia. chris: all right. well, let's take a look at some of the provisions in georgia and then these are specific ones that a lot of people are having heartburn about, senator. it would limit the number and location of drop boxes. it allows counties to cut off a early voting at 5:00 p.m. before a lot of working people get off and could go vote. and this is the one that i think is creating the biggest fuss. it prohibits, it makes it a crime to give food or drink to voters waiting in line. senator

elections commission. he has served as the legal counsel and policy adviser to the governor of virginia, the attorney general of virginia, the associate general counsel to the university of virginia, and general counsel to a number of political organizations. his experience covers a broad range of policy oriented subjects, including federal and state campaign finance laws, ethics laws, and election administration. we're glad to have him with us as well. and another former commissioner of the federal elections commission, bradley smith. professor smith is the founder and chairman of the institute for free speech and is the josiah blackmore and shirley naught professor of law in columbus, ohio. he previously served as commissioner of the federal elections commission, including vice chairman in 2003 and chairman in 2004. thank you, chairwoman. sen. klobuchar: thank you very much. each witness will now be recognized for five minutes for their opening statement. we will begin with the honorable mr. potter. mr.

it will take over every election and every state, makes the federal election commission a partisan commission, that's the power grab we are standing up to to my friends in georgia. highen the history of georgia. we had something like 150 million people vote. any time a republican does anything, you're a racist, if you're a white conservative, you're a racist. if you're a black republican you are either pop or uncle tom. they use the racism card to advance the liberalism agenda. hr 1 is sick, not what they're doing in georgia. >> chris: let's take a look at some of the provisions in georgia and these are specific ones that a lot of people are having heartburn about from a senator. would limit the number and location of drop boxes. it allows counties to cut off early voting at 5:00 p.m. before a lot of working people get off and could go vote and this is the one that i think is creating the biggest bus, it prohibits, it makes it a crime to give food or drink to voters waiting in line. senator, why on earth if americans are willing to wait hours to vote would you make it a crime for people to co

it will not accept those results because the election commission in collaboration with the governing party was trying to rig them out however from all indications observers who witnessed the fall give it a period of despite the problems encountered during the conduct of the elections like the late start the month function of the election materials and all that but right now what we are waiting for is a fine on the colorations just an hour ago more than 190 seat have been declared a person what are those party b r h d p is clearly in the lead they have taken a break the election commission has taken a break and will resume and has started by the way. the announcement of this these results before the end of the day will clearly know whether the other h d p party won a clear majority or the opposition has won a clear majority in parliament as they claimed ok i know they were all violence because of what happened after the presidential election have any of those has been realized. while they were close to there when we were close to witnessing another round of violence yesterday when opp

the election because it's been our 2 unknowns who wins the election the rest will be in election commission the constitution of that's all that's what we're seeing right now most of the results have come in and a lot of the legislators who have contested election must have no known their fate and b. and also and we are waiting for just for a few dozen seats that's around $32.00 seats left to be announced by the election commission which is by the way is under way now we've seen also 2 in the run up to this legislative election there's been tension in the air and even on election day cases were reported in various courts and district cia and i recall. although they are minimal and observers say that these are not enough to impart the overall outcome of this result however people here are really afraid to ask any are voidable the streets here and they will turn without concern about what will come after the final results in 111 such an all of the political divide is strictly either having an outright majority in parliament or its winner of this election. led to more head this news all includi

commission says prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been on 159 knesset seats in tuesday's vote it needed 61 to claim victory a coalition of parties that wants to oust him got 57 seats. soldiers in mozambique are trying to push rebel fighters out of the northern town of palma which is close to a $60000000000.00 gas project there's a big defense ministry confirmed the rebels raided the town in the province of kava delgado on wednesday residents were reportedly forced to hide in nearby forests communication with the town has been cut making it hard to confirm the number of people missing or killed armed groups linked to ice or have been behind similar attacks in recent years. though i believe you because you are also called on the population to collaborate with the authorities denouncing terrorists and armed men for the utilization of the defense and security forces will do everything to ensure the well being of the population against the. perpetrated by a target of us while continuing to guarantee the protection of the economic projects the number of people who died from the corona

and the election assistance commission. i even took part this summer in a tabletop exercise to prepare for cyberattacks. if we had considered this bill in committee, we could have talked about our success in thi area during the last election. this is another example of the democrats not knowing what's in their legislation anduling out their standard bill without a thoughtful review. absolutely no one, no one wants foreignnterference in our elections. but the last thing we need to do -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman wi suspend. could we moveonversations off the floor? the gentleman deserves to be heard. the gentleman may proceed. mr. davi thank you, mr. speaker. absolutely none wants foreign interference in our elections. buthe last thing we nd to do another layer of bureaucracy when we have programs in place that have been successful fo our local election officials and it's because of some great work by sisa hat we should recnize them. finally, this amendment would violate separation of powers and attempt control o

commission says prime minister benjamin netanyahu is bloc won $59.00 knesset seats in tuesday's vote needed $61.00 to claim victory a coalition of parties that wants to oust him got $57.00 seats. the number of people who've died from the corona virus in mexico has now passed 200000 is the 3rd country in the world to reach that milestone following the u.s. and brazil mexico has a population of about 130000000 if you stay with us or not as there are one i want east is up next i for that. didn't make 2020 the death of george floyd sparked protests and outrage across the world the former police officer responsible for the story getting into the ground all over with a name behind his name now faces trial joining us for live coverage of the direction of the trial on al-jazeera. in russia and him a mixed martial arts is a phenomenon. in the city's hundreds of amateur fighters front up to a battle with few rules. of. deep in the caucasus mountains. train from morning till night hoping to find their way out of poverty and become champions. if you don't see it's a tough path but the payoff bei

this bill would take the federal election commission from an evenly split, bipartisan panel to a partisan body so that democrats could rule unilaterally over politics as well as citizens' speech. >> what do you think? >> the minority leader is exactly right because not only does it change the way that federal election commission works, the ability to actually sue and go after this is very limited. you can only use one particular attorney in order to do that. the ballots that come in, the bill mandates that they have to be able to accept ballots 10 days after the election is over. no shenanigans will go on there. the list just goes on and on and on. it is a total, complete power grab. this is disaster liberalism. take a crisis and manipulate it to push through your own political power grab and exactly what the democrats are trying to do right now. >> democrats pushing back. we have to point out on republicans saying they make a power grab of their own trying to restrict average americans access to voting. we'll see how it goes. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it as always, jason. >

also arrest the arresting people from the party and also from the election commission as many of. you know but we are not afraid we have to much that we have. we we have to mind that. this too is just freedom and democracy to bring to the arena he comes. because he has occupied they can just drop this rain if you from our with the use of violence and. all right it's very very unfortunate i have to leave it there the sound is unfortunately breaking up a little bit we hope to speak to you again soon about more of the situation going on in me and mar thank you very much though. now let's turn to the united kingdom our anger is growing over the police handling of vigil in honor of murder victims. people once again defied a ban on gatherings this time to mass outside new scotland yard headquarters of london's metropolitan police they're angry not only at the violence women face but also at the way police forcibly broke up a spontaneous vigil to honor sara ever out on saturday an officer in the metropolitan police has been accused of murdering the 33 year old woman. i one police officer

are accusing the election commission of could looting to rig the results as the headlines the news will continue here on al-jazeera right after one o one east which is coming up next season. madam speaker the president of the people's republic of china. when china's president xi jinping visited in november 2040 australia's relations with its biggest trading partner appeared strong the future brought. in that she did our relationship has reached a new and higher starting point. but just 6 years in a pandemic later relations are broken the virus began in chawner and we'll have that think well understood. after stray led the world in calling for an investigation into the origins of corona virus last year china slammed crippling sanctions on a strain export industry. chinese state media blitz a war of words and teeth for tat retaliations erupted. you can call it a kind of political manipulation of the looks of matter for them try will do what's in our interest. but the truth is this diplomatic crisis has been brewing for years one on one east looks at what caused it and the fierce debate no

commission. went about this so it's almost settled now. has been won and lost by the respective. project. because last year when the opposition to the presidential elections. on its performance in subsequent elections and this is what is. right across i because. still to come on al-jazeera the debate heats up at the world trade organization over a vaccine pay since in a bid to get the pandemic under control and when the chips are down more on the global shortage of semiconductors and why 2 countries hold a virtual informal. looking a little unsettled into eastern parts of australia the moment with some lively shall is coming through here just popping off some sundry downpours lingering across the eastern side of new south wales as we go on through the next couple of days so watch out for a submissive a storm sipped tensely large hail and some very heavy rain at times some heavy rain at times down towards adelaide into south australia further north the showers continue just around the top and over

commission officials to ignore these accusations the military had said electoral inconsistences again the military's been saying this since well since the election itself but has used it as a justification for the coup they haven't proven any of these claims and in fact independent election. overwatch is who said they haven't seen any consistency of these charges either he also said that the military would maintain their control of the country for such a period until an election could happen nationally they said after the coup on february 1st that would be 12 months they seem to be stretching that out now potentially to even longer so no surprises here unfortunately. more charges being for the against young son suchi we imagine in the next few days and a period of indefinite military control tony chang now with all the latest for us from bangkok thank you so much tony. well as tony was mentioning amnesty international is saying analysis of more than 50 videos shows that mia lost military isn't gauging and premeditated killings and the poing what it calls battlefield weaponry and warni

commission not to investigate the charges of election failings that the military had leveled again all of these things the military have accused. the members of they failed to provide any evidence at all that they said they had investigated these charges and they would be providing evidence at this stage we don't know what their evidence is we do know they've been raiding n.l. the offices around the country and high profile economic advisor and he's straight in name professor sean turn all records were taken when he was detained that may make up some of their supposed evidence but at this stage they haven't presented anything at all nonetheless it does seem clear that despite their claims and they said today that the international community had no should have no concerns about what's going on in myanmar there are deep concerns we've seen the un security council unified with china and russia condemning what's going on at the moment the thai government here in bangkok today also held a press conference saying they were hoping there would be no further. violence on the streets and yet at

commission. china has approved changes to limits democratic participation in hong kong's elections its annual national people's congress pass new loss to veto and screen candidates it follows mass protests in the semi-autonomous territory and 21000 calling for greater freedoms the chinese prime minister says the reforms would ensure hong kong is governed by what he calls patriots wave told him why the meeting made the decision of improving the election system of their own kong special administrative region all delegates highly agreed and have expressed to the strong determination of the people of all ethnic groups in the country including hochul compactly it's to safeguard national sovereignty security and development interests and maintain the hong kong's constitution. japan is marking 10 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit its northeastern coast 10 triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant 16000 people were killed and 25 hundreds on missing. foreign minister has held talks w

commission says a probe any minute now bloc of parties won $52.00 seats in tuesday's vote it needs to be one to claim victory a coalition of parties against the prime minister won $57.00 seats israel could now face another election which would be its 5th in 2 years a name is in west jerusalem and says prime minister netanyahu may have a plan up his sleeve. there are a couple things that are expected to be happening on election night netanyahu came out and said that he would be making overtures to members of the knesset who shared the likud party's ideology that was taken as a signal that now netanyahu is trying to win back formerly crew members who defected to other far right parties look there is a possibility that if they you mean a party joins his coalition that would mean that he has $59.00 seats so then he'd only be looking for 2 former likud members to defect and he could lure them to defect by perhaps offering a minister seat there's also the united arab list it's a conservative newcomer party that can bring 4 seats there's been discussion under way that perhaps. the leader has

commission, which has always been divided equally between the parties them about in hr 1, one party would have a majority -- between the parties, but in hr one, one party would have a majority. >> what we have seen in places like louisville, kentucky, but throughout america is an uptick in voter participation, in voter engagement, and this has happened during a time of national crisis. during the pandemic, i think for the first time in my life, everything has gone digital. but particularly the african-american community. i would be curious to get your sense of the voting rights act and what dimensions of in our most important to you, and maybe any thoughts you have in response to the things john has shared. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. let me start with the things john and i agree on. i think early voting is really important. it is fundamental and something we should see expanded. the extent that we have things that were improved because of the pandemic, to the extent that we were able to rely on technology and early voting and those things that allowed people to engage m

commission to tell us how they went about this so it's almost settled now but the election has been won and lost by the respective political parties the president's part was projected to do well because last year when the opposition to the presidential elections. wanted to be negatively impact on its performance in subsequent elections and this is what is p.c. in their own right across i because the death toll from a number of explosions in equitorial guinea on sunday has risen to. more than 600 people were injured in the powerful blasts in the port city. officials say the explosions at a military base were caused by improperly stored along with stubble burning in the . still ahead on al-jazeera after a delay the jury selection in the murder trial of their calvin will go ahead. and shortage of microchips highlights how a monopoly on production is high tech industries around the world. how high that the weather's looking lousy fought in try across much of the middle east but there is a change on the way if you look a little further north you got to roll them all cloud just around the

the election commission of colluding to rig the results. voting has started in bolivia for local elections seen as a test of support for the socialist government any hope they will signal an end to 2 years of instability during allegations of a total fraud and a right wing coup then of reports from neighboring argentina. it's always been difficult for xander and her family to eke out a living but the pandemic has made their lives harder still for her not working is not an option i mean i mean. it's for my family my mom and dad have been sick and the medicines are very expensive all we can do is go out and keep working. voting in bolivia as obligatory on the would go to the ballot box with little optimism i think that. even though the elections bring new authorities the politics are always the same they campaign they talk a lot but when they're in power they forget i believe it will always be like that. libya is striving for stability after years of political turmoil with saw former president evo morales flee the country in 2019 to be replac

the opposition to the presidential elections. has been called to make it to be about its performance in subsequent elections and this is what these people seem to know right across ivory coast. still ahead on al-jazeera a shot in the arm in the u.s. battle against coronaviruses vaccinated americans get the all clear to move more freely. and balancing out more problems for the tokyo olympics as a test event is cancelled. hello the weather sloshy set fire for japan over the next couple of days you have got some wet weather just spinning out the chart as they see the same area of play out just seeding in across the region they still palls will become rather more unsettled but for the korean peninsula and for japan it's a weak reach of high pressure just a flabby area of high pressure here lightweight the so will be essentially fine and dry what shall we do have across northern parts getting squeezed out of the way there we go warm sunshine tokyo getting up to a very agreeable $966.00 in file in height 17 celsius there full so here's

commission to tell us how they went about this so it's almost settled now. has been won and lost by the respective political parties the person is quite was projected to do well now because last year when the opposition to the presidential election was a lot of observers it could be negatively impact on its performance in subsequent elections and this is what is p.c. now right across i because. in a european 1st $10000000.00 doses of the russian sputnik v vaccine will be produced in italy production is set to start in july with the order completed before the end of the year russia wants to expand production across more nations with deals made in spain france and germany it's further evidence of unhappiness with the slow progress of the joint european union vaccine purchase scheme fewer than one in 10 in 10 italians has been given the jab but the sputnik fact seems not even been approved by european regulators. meanwhile in the occupied west bank health workers are facing intense pressure in their fight against the coronavirus hospitals are so overwhelmed tha

commission which will compile the number of votes cast for each individual for each contestant and then the winners will be and. i'm and why is the policy of the fallen president all back by taking part now it's the 1st time that doing this in a decade isn't it. yes basically that there are concerns that if. this if the opposition in this country allowed the election to go and they boycotted the election just like they did the presidential election that could easily victory to the governing party which the which they feel will not all go well for the country they fear that this country gradually move to a one party state and that's what they wanted to do and apart from that those who are having some concerns or some issues of personal water and his party would want to use this opportunity to grab as many seed as they can in parliament so as to confront the president president's party to make things difficult in governing and at least represent their own people in parliament and in governance in this country but basically the political anymore city among the various political parties esp

lecia dummer non-si a defining and requested their previous uni election commission to resolve in regard to the final reveal their drop off but did millionfold on this issue beyond the u.e.c. about $100000000.00 fold their lease which is about a one for dog 25 percent would lead to the keys of. the. front included. in divert your that could lead to busing involved in more than once and their inclusion of. nation there's going to need that hold those. are made to complain to the user. to address the issue of the dollars in regard to these and their requests was rejected by the u.c. in accord with the constitution and provision of the parliament through. your door and some one of the bodies. because of the laws or looked or union polymer to resolve this issue through convening a special session of bali well done but also for the woman of new. and to the solution that you see or unfold in regard to the request of the president to hold the nation as security and defense counsel to resolve the issue probably one of our own these attorneys were ignored and used for you to address that issued.

but i don't believe that translates to an argument for keeping the federal election commission the way it is. >> but you wouldn't expect that congress to change the ethics committee in the senate to where it had not an equal number. is that what you're saying? >> no. i think ethics committees in the congress have always had equal numbers. and we support that. >> well, i would think at the time in 1974 that that was at least one of the models looked at. i wonder, mr. potter, if the commission suffered, in your view, from having a long period of time, most of the previous ten years until this committee worked to get six commissioners in place again. it was a long period of time when either there were three commissioners or there was almost never six commissioners. this is looking backward at a time when you weren't on the commission. do you think that was harmful to the commission? >> there was a period -- there have been two periods of time, to my knowledge, when it has not had a quorum. and i think that is incredibly harmful to the commission. one was in 2008. and one was much more rec

in political deadlock after final results showed no party winning an outright majority in parliament election commission says prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a right wing bloc won $57.00 knesset seats in tuesday's vote it needed $61.00 to claim victory a coalition of parties that wants to oust him got $57.00 seats could 19 is dominating talks at a virtual e.u. leaders summit in brussels members discussing ways to ramp up vaccine supplies and ensure equitable access within the trade block blocking the export of locally produced vaccine doses has also been a matter of debate. there's a top stories do stay with us on the stream is up next. hi i'm femi oke a on today's episode of the string we take a look at an intimate film about a korean family growing up in the 1980s in war arkansas that is resonating with asian americans today minori is an intimate look at the asian american experience with great can draw at a time when asian americans themselves are facing races attacks in america have you seen the film what do you think about it you can jump into your comments a big part of today's sho

commission says prime minister benjamin netanyahu is bloc won 59 knesset seats in tuesday's vote needed 61 to claim victory a coalition of parties that wants to oust him got $57.00 seats and the show name is live for us in west jerusalem so what does this mean. well in the short term it means that the political limbo that israelis have been facing for the last 2 years continues and already there is talk of a possible 50 election but this is what needs to happen next so 1st and foremost the president of israel has postponed postpone consultations that he would have in which the candidates come to him and say these are the 61 members majority needed in the knesset as you just mentioned who will form the next government to give the candidate in this case presumably netanyahu more time he's postponed those consultations until probably post april 5th after the passover holiday at that time again presumably netanyahu does have a very very difficult path but he may be able fees of masterful politician he may be able to somehow amass votes and we can talk about that later but at that time once

commission which will compile the number of votes cast for each individual for each contestant and then the winners will be and. now indian farmers of mark the 100th day of the protests against new agricultural laws in the country thousands of blocks a large road in the capital new delhi standing on tractors and waving flags the united farm is front says the that since the protests began at least 248 farmers have died at the sit ins some of them from health issues are those by suicide the protesters say they won't move until the government repeals the new laws. it's one of the biggest challenges prime listener and modi has faced since coming to power in 2014. when out of the ongoing fallout from the brics it deal people in northern ireland who want to remain part of the u.k. say it's driven a wedge between them and the rest of the country feelings are running so high that an organization which represents formally armed factions is saying it no longer supports the 1908 peace treaty which ended the violence from belfast jonah hall reports on how real the prospect of renewed fighting is. i

commission of commuting to rig the results. now israel is in its final phase of lifting coronavirus restrictions with hospitality businesses and schools reopening their doors on sunday israeli government has also approved the partial reopening of the main international airports with limits on the number of incoming passengers people must show they've been fully vaccinated or have recovered from cover 1000 to attend cultural events or go to restaurants we opening the economy has been a major campaign promise from the prime minister benjamin netanyahu ahead of this month's election we're very happy do you stay can you leave because we stood there in the right you see the will be will be able to hear is the easy to go. to see stressful situation because you believe in the movie believe i believe we're asking if we could still. be as you can see today is a happy day for us because we are open but still we are worried because it's not finished yet nobody knows when it will finish and we are. actually afraid that there's going to be

commission's april benjamin netanyahu brok of parties won $52.00 seats in tuesday's vote it needs $61.00 to claim victory a coalition of parties against the prime minister won $57.00 seats israel could now face another election which would be its 5th in 2 year is the biden administration is restoring aid programs for palestinians in the gaza strip in the occupied west bank the state department says $15000000.00 will be made available for health care facilities an emergency food programs under pressure because of covert 19 former president donald trump suspended aid after the palestinian leadership rejected the so-called middle east peace blah now republicans in the u.s. state of georgia have passed a new law adding restrictions on voting access following last year's election it includes limits on early voting in additional voter id requirements for mail in ballots it also gives more power to the state legislature currently dominated by republicans critics say it's an attempt to make it harder for minorities to cast their ballots joe biden won the states last november the 1st democrat to

rights, overhauling the federal election commission and modernization and voter registration. you call it of top-down power grab in the democratic election system. what happens if this becomes law? >> it is a disaster. it is an absolute disaster. lowering the voting raised to 60 years old. last i checked they were still eating tied pods. making dc estate absolute disaster, to keep democrats in power forevermore. donate that to the campaign, on political contribution, no one said there's not enough money in politics and campaigns but what we can do to make less money involved in campaign. now they want to use your tax dollars to do it. this is a disaster. it is not for the people. todd: we can't let you go without asking about my fraternity brother implying i had fun with dr. seuss. cancel culture coming for the good doctor. is this the tipping point or is it the beginning of cancel culture? >> we are not living in a time when a classic potato toy is offensive to people because of its, quote, gender and now we are banning dr. seuss? this is crazy. i'm encouraging my fellow coll

commission of colluding to rig the results b.c. i party is kind 11 ballot boxes were destroyed many voters stayed home because they feared being attacked arab wise president is planning a cabinet reshuffle president benito's has faced growing pressure from protesters to resign over the government's handling of the pandemic security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas at rioters in the center of the capital. health minister resigned soon afterwards. and he says he'll also name a new cabinet chief in education minister in the coming hours. so witnesses coming up next featuring a group of young men building a secret library while under siege in syria i'll have more news for you after that at 2030 g.m.t. bye for now. yes in the haleigh saw that it meticulously. beneath i down is what you will miss eliot ness a good. place to get a a t.v. studio. on a stumble. in hate a so nancy chick left oh well now i see where that if i didn't mean naomi and not i just feel. the superleague on him i know directly come a sudden. the sit on the su