>> benjamin netanyahu's likud party wins the election. the question is can they build a coalition. >> hello once again from doha. this is the world news from al jazeera. human rights watch accusing the militia which destroying the homes of the very people they're needn't protect. >> protests outside the european control banks new headquarters. >> i'm in kenya. today, we take you to a very beautiful place.

find why some of the locals aren't happy. >> so in israel, it looks like benjamin netanyahu will remain as prime minister. the opposition leader, isaac herzog called benjamin netanyahu to congratulate him on his election win. the next step is for israel's president to invite netanyahu to form a coalition. 99% of the vote is in. it could lead to 29 seats compared to the zionist union with 24 seats. prime minister netanyahu has promise there had will be no palestinian state created if he wins this fourth term. the zionist union does back the idea of a two-state solution, and you've also got this tomorrow the joint israel arab union, the small parties that banned together and ever now

taken 14 seats in the can knesset. for people not familiar with israeli politics, talk us through the process now. it's not just a case of forming a coalition. there are formalities go through. >> indeed. all eyes are on the president to see if he will tap mr. netanyahu's shoulder and ask him to form his coalition government, but if we look at comments made late yesterday evening by the president, he said that he's going to work towards a unity government, meaning he wants mr. netanyahu and the opposition leader, isaac herzog and his zionist union block to form a government together. it's going to be increasingly difficult for mr. netanyahu to do such a thing given the fact that he has a pretty substantial number of seats and ideologically he is divided from

mr. herzog, enough to not want to join into a coalition government with him. again, anything can happen in israeli politics. it is about trying to put together a government so that mr. netanyahu can secure a historic fourth term in office, potentially making him israel's longest serving prime minister. >> he'd be quietly pleased with himself. i don't think mr. netanyahu would say it out loud, but all indications before the poll that this was going to be super super tight but in the end he probably did quite well. >> indeed. i don't think mr. netanyahu had any idea he or his likud party would do so well. it really was doomsday for lack of a better word for mr. netanyahu and his likud party. when you look at his behavior at candidate, he really lunched

extremely far right to try to get his far right supporters to get behind him. of course, saying as we've been reporting an outright rejection of any palestinian state but even on election day he put what's been described as a racist rant on his facebook page urging his supporters to come out because arabs were going to the polls in droves, clearly saying that if those who sit on the right of the spectrum didn't go to the polls for whatever reason, that we would see a strong showing of the israeli-palestinian parties which we still did. how often in saying all of that, it did result in an outpouring of support for mr. netanyahu obviously for a number of reasons, but it would appear that his brand of politics is the kind of politics that a lot of israelis support. >> live from west jerusalem thank you. >> i'd like to return to the idea of the joint list of israeli-palestinian parties, you

mentioned this before. with their 14 seats, they will be the third largest force in the knesset. we have more on this unprecedented development. >> the joint list of mainly arab members of the knesset is now the third largest political party in the israeli parliament. it has said it will do whatever it can to prevent another right wing government from being folder in israel following this election. with netanyahu winning a significantly higher number of seats than his opponents in the centrist zionist union party it puts him in a much better position to form the coalition government and there is little the joint list can do to stop him from doing so. however, palestinians here say at a the joint list has received the trust and the support of the palestinian people, but has lost the battle against the right wing in drill. the advancement of the likud is

not going to be good for palestinians in israel or the west bank. they expect a continuation of the right wing government policies that they consider racist against palestinians. netanyahu has said that he would never allow a palestinian state to be established and has also vowed to continue to build illegal settlements in the occupied west bang. that said, however palestinian-israelis are very proud of the joint list achievements and they say if it's not able to change policy and block a right wing government from being formed at least it is able to oppose policies it does not agree with in the knesset. >> in iraq, government forces and militias are accused of serious abuses during their battle against islamic state of iraq and the levant. human rights watch said iraqi forces deliberately destroyed civilian homes and property around amerli last september.

they also documented the abduction of 11 men taken by iraqi forces in september and october. this report includes satellite images which human rights watch said demonstrate the destruction of town surrounding ali. we start with this image before the iraqi forces took control and afterwards, these red spots is what human rights watch said have been arson attacks and the yellow the sites where buildings have been demolished. we spoke a a senior researcher with human rights watch who explains. >> the militia's went out and they campaigned to clear the area of isis, and what that has morphed into is a campaign of revenge attacks targeting sunni villages in the area. they have gone through each of these villages and looted them,

burned them, there has been purposeful arson and purposeful demolition. these are militias who are essentially working in conjunction with government security forces, but are operating like ma radding gangs. >> they are attacking people for their own purposes and beliefs. >> absolutely. we have observed a weird collective punishment, the militias take down these villages where isis used some of them, as a base to lay siege on the town of amerli, put citizens, the civilians sorry who were living in those villages have been caught between the horrors of isis and now the brutality of the militias. they have been driven out of their homes in the thousands. what we documented in a 500

square kilometer area is that 30 out of 35 villages have been destroyed. one in particular, the village of habash, satellite imagery showed 75% of that village has been destroyed between arson and purposeful demolition. that includes heavy earth moving equipment used to actually destroy these houses. >> the iraqi government has responded to these allegations of human rights watch saying isil is responsible and some of that footage is fabricated and there is zero tolerance on human rights abuses on any group in iraq. >> three people died after an explosion near the border with await, a truck blew up in buspar province in southern iraq. >> the syrian government said it's shot down a u.s. drone. state t.v. reports the aircraft was brought down north of the

coastal city and there were images are what it says it the wreckage including a wheel and electronic parts. the u.s. said a drone crashed in syria but it wasn't sure if it was shot down. >> airstrikes in aleppo has killed four people including a child. activists say a government helicopter dropped a barrel bomb in aleppo. >> police fired tear gas as thousands of people protesting in germany. they are rallying against capitollism in the countries financial center, trying to interrupt the opening of the european central bank's new headquarters. one officer has been injured and at least 300 people detained. it is the focus of the protestors and not just because of that building, but because it's part of the so-called troy

co which oversees bailouts. it monitors the terms of the loans to countries like greece has. the president has called for more spending from countries like germany but the call has mostly been ignored. we have a report: >> the thousands of protestors who ever come to the billion dollar building behind me came with one mission to try to prevent and disrupt the inauguration ceremony taking place, inaugurating this billion dollar building that has cost taxpayers so much and taken five years to build. it says austerity is killing jobs and livelihoods. the police talked about around

500 people being held in two flash point areas of the city, where they're held to prevent them from committing crimes and prevent them from getting to this building, which is the place they are calling on people to come. they said they'll have 10,000 people here looking to stage their protest and make their point that they consider this place to be the focal point of the e.u.'s austerity measures. the e.u. and central european bank inaugurated this building and are saying effectively that there is no other alternative. it is said the governments need to stop spending money to help the euro zone grow but hasn't given indication that austerity has to end. the question is whether any of the demonstrations or protests here will make the e.c.b. change its mind. >> claims of human rights abuses in crimea.

we'll talk to a man who's son disappeared after the annext. >> coming up, i'll be taking a look at why india's prime minister bike run has become a thumping global success. it's an ancestral place. >> sacred lands threatened. >> were the apache consulted on this? >> no. >> a controversial deal. >> we would love to have a mine in the community. at the end of the day, it is an issue of fairness. >> america tonight gets an exclusive interview with a foreign mining company accused of taking native american land. >> people have been very critical of your company, saying that it'll leave a permanent scar on the landscape. will it? >> an america tonight special report: "mining sacred lands". tomorrow, 10:00 eastern.

>> the stream, >> your digital community >> you pick the hot topics and express your thoughts the stream it's your chance to join the conversation only on al jazeera america >> top stories for you on al jazeera, israels opposition leader isaac herzog called benjamin netanyahu and congratulated him on his election win. results show prime minister netanyahu's likud party has

taken 29 seats the sigh onist party 24. >> iraqi government forces and volunteer fighters and militias are accused of deliberately destroying civilian homes and property in areas surrounding the town of amerli. human rights has proof there was destruction. >> frankfurt police fired tear gas at anti capitalism protestors. 25,000 people are expected to attend rallies trying to disrupt the opening ceremony of the central banks new headquarters. >> three people have been killed in northeast kenya. witnesses say gunman locked people inside a shop in the town and then set it on fire. it is the somali based rebel grab al shabab which says it carried out attacks. there is a demand for greater

security in ken in a near somalia. >> you were in an ambush last week. tell us about it. >> yes, thank you very much. we have actually been having a serious problem of terror cells from somalia coming the last few years. the incidents have been -- in december, we lost about 64 civilians. in the recent past, there have been a series of attacks in the

town. >> can you tell us -- >> can you tell us about your personal experience, as well? i'm quite keen to know what you went through, as well, because that personal experience gives you a lot of knowledge of how this works. >> yeah, absolutely. last week -- the road along the border with somalia and my convoy were attacked and two vehicles -- in that attack. the point of attack, they left in two minutes before the attack

was -- the target was on my convoy and my life, this is the fifth time -- the last two in that convoy where we lost a leader former chairman of the coalition government. i lost two of my stuart guards who were caught in that attack, and we also had five occupants hospitalized. >> ok. thank you. we thank you for your time. >> a car bomb has exploded in southern afghanistan, killing at least seven. this is the capitol of he will monday province.

twenty people have been injured there. >> it's been a year since the annexing of crimea to russia. >> he he hasn't slept in his bed since last september. his bag hangs where he he left it his clothes where they were hung on the day men in black uniforms abducted the 18-year-old and his cousin. now his father is left half hoping, half grieving and wondering if he is in any way to blame. >> one of the interrogations after the abduction, all possible versions were study understand and were considering one conducted with me and my activity. he asked what he meant. he answered you need to be careful in your behavior. i asked does that mean my church are alive? he smiled and shrugged his

shoulders. >> he was deputy chairman of the tartar's informal parliament before it was effectively shut down by crimea's new administration. tartar media outlets have been raided or denied licenses. last march, the body of a tartar man was found with signs of torture. the issue of crimea's tartars is a deeply complex with un, coming in large part from their deportation to central asia in 1944 and their later return. it pulls in long standing arguments over land rights and religious differences but crimea's tartar's around the only people complaining of human rights abuses at the moment. >> abductions and spurious prosecutions say rights workers are being used against those too critical of cream i can't's return to russia. >> another group is ukrainian

activists, who with any point in their lives expressed involvement in organizations supporting ukraine. these people consider themselves ukrainian because it would be territory of ukraine. >> such accusations get short shwrist from crimea's new leaders, though. >> unfortunately, the so-called human rights defenders are ringing alarms where alarming cases are not happening working for money paid from certain organizations in western countries. they have certain targets, the main one to prevent crimea joining russia. >> this man is being assured his son's disappearance is being investigated. >> i'm not sure 100%, but i think he's alive. >> until proven right or wrong all he can do is campaign and hope. >> indonesian rescue teams are

calling off the search for the victims of the plane crash in the jar have a sea last december. stormy weather was blamed for the accident. we have more from jakarta. actually we'll have that report later. >> a second emergency is declared in the state after heavy flooding. civil defense democratic said 20,000 have been affected. the water supply in the area has been shut down, as well, leaving locals without drinking water. 26 tons of emergency supplies including food and medicine have been distributed to the city. >> the red cross launched a $4 million emergency appeal to help venuatu devastated by cyclone pam which hit friday. at least 11 have been killed and more than 3,000 lost their homes.

aid agencies are scrambling to deliver food and water to remote islands, which were hardest-hit. >> kenya's national park is visited by how toes every year, but the locals living near and around it said they are not benefiting. they started protesting to demand a greater share of the millions of dollars the reserve generates. as we report with, some protests have turned violent. >> this herd seems very relaxed in the national game reserve. park officials say thousands of people visit every year to see some of the animals up close and the beautiful landscape. >> kenya earns millions of dollars from foreign and local tourists. this 29-year-old died from fighting for a share of that money, shot by security officers during a protest. his family is still in shock. they are part of a community who

feel a few not county government are benefiting. >> it was just a peaceful demonstration, suddenly, bullets were fired then he was dead. >> he tried to manage the animosity locals have with local politicians here. >> people are are complaining about management of resources. it's corruption. this are suspected of stealing public funds. >> officials deny corruption, saying the community are getting a fair share of the revenue. >> we give 50%. each get over $20 million a year. >> 20 million kenya shillings is roughly $200,000. those that say that money isn't

reaching them try to entice tour its to their villages. >> tourists get to see how they live. these women are selling souvenirs. take a look at this, isn't this beautiful? this beaded necklace. the women spend many, many hours making them. >> they say what they earn is nowhere near what some politicians and well connected individuals get. until a solution is found a frustrated community waits hoping they too will animals they have lived side by side with for generations. >> india is home to one of the world's largest motorcycle markets. in fact, it has surpassed harley davidson as the top bike maker. it has sights set on european and american markets. >> this indian made motor bike has global ambitions. ask any enthusiast about royal

infield and they'll tell you these buying are on a roll. to get this far the brand has made tough decisions. >> it's 140 years the longest running motorcycle company in the world now and -- but bringing that into modern context, so that's the fine balance. >> to attract more buyers, royal infield reengineered its bikes making them easier to ride. as a result, since 2011, sales have increased four fold to more than 300,000 bikes last year, royal infield even outsold harley davidson globally. >> just as some motor bike enthusiasts will tell you it's unfair to compare royal infield and harley davidson, they say there is no comparison to early

brands. >> over the years everyone from milk men to army officers kept the bike going. he considers himself part of the old guard which say the new bikes compromise core values for profits. >> i've worked on hundreds, they were always maintained, always kept alive by individuals who never worked for them, purely for love of the bike. >> that's what keeps jonathan gibson on the road. this bike is the same model his grandfather rode more than 100 years ago. he is riding his 45-year-old infield from sydney to london. >> it's a huge testament to the passion behind the infield. >> the challenge is keeping the passion and the numbers going in

the same direction as the indian government tries to grow the manufacturing sector, many say a bike built local leand hand painted is a timely reminder of the uniqueness of what india has to offer. al jazeera. >> colombia is returning 150 wild animals to their natural has been tats after months of rehabilitation. many creatures are from the amazon rain forest, seized from traffickers a year ago before released into the wild, they went through thorough medical examinations to make sure they wouldn't spread diseases. >> people have been attacking in spectacular views of the aurora borealis. the northern lights have been especially strong due to a severe solar storm which hit the earth. the phenomenon is caused by reputations on the surface of the sun.

sky gazers have posted their images of the light show on social media. we've got a bunch of them on line, as well as aljazeera.com. if you head there go to our special on line gallery and catch up with more pictures of the aurora borealis, the northern lights. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. israeli's prime minister found himself in the fight of his political life, as voters turned out in large numbers and were signaling they were ready for change, but just a few hours ago, benjamin netanyahu net declared victory in a close race. right now, it looks a lot like a tie. when the dust settles and a victorious party shapes a coalition that can back the next prime minister, will the voters actually see anything different? was this about security? was it about iran and the threat it poses, or