israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismisses of the citizen to indict him on corruption charges as a political witch hunt. you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming out of the u.n. says israeli forces may have committed war crimes in their crackdown on palestinians protesting in gaza basically they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that. says he had to walk away from

a summit with kim jong il and with no deal but north korea's foreign minister has this view to that explanation and pakistan pledges to release a captured indian pilot as a peace gesture but both sides remain on high alert for attacks. hello thank you for joining us israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases his likud party is calling it political persecution ahead of april's election and in the last hour national himself has said the charges against him will collapse like a house of cards. remember tim the goodwood put three years they've been conducting against as a political witch hunt an unprecedented witch hunt which aims to topple the right wing government and bring to power the leftist party of lapita and counts that have

put inhumane pressure on the state attorney general it's collective burnet smith joins us now from west jerusalem silvered what else did the prime minister say while he was always very defensive barbara dismissing these allegations against him but this has been a very detailed and wide ranging investigation by the attorney general twenty senior justice officials examining thousands of pages of evidence interviewing some one hundred forty witnesses five of them are either former or serving cabinet ministers all of that investigation as boarders to the decision by the attorney general to bring charges today. so you must love that he is the first sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust but benjamin netanyahu says he's innocent and will stay in his post there's no legal

requirement for him to step down here in part is the world feel to the supreme court saying look it's slow it's not logical the job of the prime minister is a very complicated job because those security issues and says that the nomic issues you cannot the law serve spend days in. the court netanyahu is in the middle of an election campaign which if you wins puts him on course to be israel's longest serving prime minister. there is nothing and there will be nothing he's told supporters here and can't rely on him but investigators say netanyahu made decisions to benefit a friend who is the main shareholder in israel's biggest internet infrastructure provider in return you get positive coverage from this friends popular news website . netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust because accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lavish gifts including cigars and pink champagne from

an israeli american entertainment magnate and there's a further breach of trust charge over allegations the prime minister promised to economically hobble one newspaper in return for favorable coverage from its rival excesses of v.b. managing the corruption investigation has been going on for years and doesn't seem to have dented netanyahu is popularity. is that guy only b.b. he's innocent these supporters are saying most of the media. the left wing. has been using this to sway the voters of the likud that is. haunting him and. want to. redeem him they want to go. to him and netanyahu must now pay for her. army of lawyers out of his own pocket the government accountants of all to the prime minister to repay three hundred thousand pounds given by wealthy cousin towards his legal fees they noted that

netanyahu is an affluent mom for israel estimate his wealth at around forty million dollars. now and then yahoo's got an opportunity to make his own arguments in front of the attorney general and only then will the attorney general finally decide whether to go ahead with an indictment or not is months away what matters now and what has become quite a tight election campaign is if any new details emerge about the nature of the challenges netanyahu faces whether that more unsavory details might be enough to put off and at the moment loyal support base baba but in smith for the latest on that from west jerusalem bernard thank you but we're joined in the studio now by al-jazeera is a senior political analyst i'm not one. good to see you following on from burnitz point there i guess it all hinges on what comes out in this investigation before the election as to the effect it might have actually happened you know i think there's a general sense in israel that. you know what i missed something i was not exactly

the most on sky and that he and his wife are probably guilty somehow because the trial of public opinion is more important at this point in time before the elections than the actual legal process that are going on in israel and i think much of israel our much of the right i should say has already coalesced behind that and you know regard this with his character. and that is very similar to what's happening in the united states because most of our viewers are probably have followed president trump the investigation and so on so forth and netanyahu has been channeling trump nonstop over the last several months and even a couple of years you know aligning himself with the radical extreme right the religious right saying that the media is the enemy accusing the left of conspiracy and that all the ills of his own making are actually those of

a conspiracy by the left but that he is a deserving of the position and he just said in the press conference in his statement that he hopes to be the prime minister of israel for years and years to come if the public trust in him continues as such but will the public trust continues where we will see in the next few days from the pools that will come out is whether this snowballs or not and do you think it's i mean again as you say we don't know what's going to come out and we don't know that the public opinion so far but do you think it is likely that he's that is own party would refute it and just see him as too much of a liability it's possible again we don't know but there already he felt that there was competition from the likes of good on saddam who are already one the third in the liquid primary is that he might be wanting to replace him that others within the party in a conspiracy if you would with the president who's also was for money from likud that they want to replace him now having said that there are some things that are predictable one more than two thirds of the israeli jewish.

voters are on the right at this point in time the left in israel is pressie now a coalition of right wing parties will definitely be ruling in israel after april mind whether with or without netanyahu so netanyahu is pushing no future is not exactly. i see it in terms of who or what coalition will govern and israel the right whether it's likud and other parts of that will continue to do so the question is will he be part of that he bets that he will i'm not sure what the public thinks but she will be talking about the next few weeks up to and of course including the elections and we'll see senior political analyst not want to share thank you now the united nations meanwhile says these really crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza may amount to war crimes u.n. investigators say israeli soldiers intentionally opened fire on civilians israel

has rejected the report branding it hostile untrue and biased close to two hundred palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded during weekly rallies along the gaza israel border fence since may last year the most recent so difference which of call in two thousand and thirteen were not military operations but civilian protest i would investigation found are the most traders were overwhelmingly an arm even if they were not at all times peaceful conceived mentally and that's one of the first two conclusions we arrived international human rights law must be deemed the a political legal framework. the u.s. president says he had to walk away from a nuclear deal with north korea because of unacceptable demands from king john or donald trump said their second summit came to an abrupt and early end because kim

wanted washington to lift all its sanctions on pyongyang in order to progress with denuclearization but he insisted that they had made good progress when he has the story now from annoying. before the summer u.s. president donald trump tried to lower expectations of a deal with north korean leader kim jong il but the expectation was at the very least that the pair would sign some form of agreement on denuclearization or make a joint statement instead the talks were cut short before lunch the table will sit for the diners didn't show leaving donald trump to explain why racially they wanted these sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they were willing to denuclearize portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the the american said kim jong un was willing to dismantle his young beyond research facility regarded as the centerpiece of north korea's nuclear program in exchange he wanted all economic sanctions lifted which was

a step too far for the us unfortunately we didn't get all the way we didn't get to something that that ultimately made sense for the united states of america i think chairman kim was hopeful that we would we asked him to do more and he did he was unprepared to do that but i'm still optimistic despite that optimism this was not how the summit was supposed to go earlier on thursday there was no sign of trouble ahead kim jong un the reclusive leader of a repressive state even answer questions from reporters perhaps for the first time . during the raid in the. kenyan very mean if you think. you'll know when you're jealous of him in i'm not worried that i won't be here right. now it will be the best answer you've ever met but after two summits that have yielded very little there are more questions than answers donald trump warned about this possibility last year ahead of the first summit in singapore

saying he was prepared to walk away if the talks weren't fruitful it seems he's now delivered on that threat but with such a sudden premature end to this summit there must be real concern about what happens next. at this stage there are no plans for a third summit donald trump says kim jong un assured him there would be no resumption of misato nuclear tests but what happened in vietnam has proved that this continues to be an unpredictable road to the stated goal of ridding north korea of nuclear weapons wayne hay al jazeera hanoi. well at a news conference in unholy a short while ago north korea's foreign minister disputed trump's explanation for the collapse of the summit and he young hall said they only asked for some of the u.s. sanctions to be lifted. if united states removes partial sanctions namely remove the articles of sanctions that hamper the civilian economy and the livelihood of our people in particular we will permanently and completely dismantle

all of the nuclear material production facilities in the yongbyon area including plutonium and uranium in the presence of u.s. experts and by the joint work of technicians in both countries. told me this proposal was the biggest denuclearization vision that we could take in the present state in relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the united states president trump is currently on his way back to washington where he'll fly into a political storm following his former lawyers testimony to congress which he has branded ninety five percent lives speaking earlier trump said michael cohen's only truthful statement was that he didn't collude with russia to win the two thousand and sixteen election cohen accused trump of racism and breaking campaign finance laws to cover up an affair with an adult film star he lied a lot but it was very interesting because he didn't lie about one thing he said no collusion with the russian hoax and i said i wonder why he didn't just lie about

that too like you did about everything else i read a lot about so many different things and i was actually impressed that he didn't say well i think there was collusion for this reason or that he didn't say that he said no collusion and i was. a little impressed by that frankly because if we could have gone all out he only won about ninety five percent instead of one hundred percent but the fact is there is no collusion and i call it the which aren't this should never happen to another president this is so bad for our country so bad. still to come in this half hour for patients missing after a second people a treatment center is attacked in three days in the eastern t r c class. that he sells supporters celebrate as official results given a second term a senegalese president without the need for a. hello

get a welcome back to the national weather forecast well has been a beautiful week here across much of central and western europe unfortunately that is now going away we're now seeing that area of high pressure moving over here towards the east and it's allowing more moisture to come across parts of central europe as well as temperatures are coming down so those above average temperatures those record breaking temperatures are now gone across much of western europe so here on friday london a nice day for you but down to twelve degrees there paris at thirteen and they are quick have across central europe rain as well as snow here on friday as we go towards saturday another system coming in from the atlantic and that will bring a few waves of rain and showers across the region but we do expect to see some very windy conditions across parts of scotland as well as northern ireland by the time we get towards the weekend down here across another part of africa where we are seeing some relatively nice conditions across much of the area most of the weather is really up to their towards the north well we are going to be seeing is some

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welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera benjamin netanyahu says he's the victim of an unprecedented witch hunt this after israel's attorney general said intends to indict the prime minister on corruption charges the united nations says israel's crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza may amount to war crimes after soldiers the deliberately opened fire on civilians and the u.s. president donald trump says he have to walk away from a nuclear deal with north korea because of unacceptable the bands from kim jong il north korea's foreign minister has disputed that explanation saying that they asked for some sanctions to be lifted but not all of them. pakistan's prime minister says

that as a gesture of peace his country will release all friday an indian pilot whose plane shot down after his capture the fighter pilot was attacked by a mob that paraded on video by pakistan's army footage of him went viral india and pakistan say that they shot down each other's fighter jets in that this feud had kashmir region pakistan says it downed two indian planes and the rest of one pilot india said it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own. well earlier pakistan's foreign minister sharma would caress she told al-jazeera his country is willing to cooperate with india to deescalate the situation. we are a new government that has been elected by the people of thugs. yes that is a historic package but be out of government with a fresh mindset we want peace and stability in the region we have a very terrorists and which is the people sent to kids into we want to focus on the

government we want to focus on our. front where we want peace and consideration and a lot of why it would be want to heat up the eastern border we have nothing to gain from that now we are willing to engage we are willing to sit and talk and we are willing to cooperate well india's prime minister narendra modi has also been speaking about the tension with their neighbors. seema part of the country's brave soldiers are showing their strength at the border and across the border to the country is one today and we're standing with the soldiers. how large is here now is samarra provided we have faith in the ability of our forces and that's why it's very important that nothing affects the morale of our soldiers otherwise our enemies will have the upper hand but with the indian elections deal in a few months or more these being accused of politicizing the the situation for

electoral. reports now from. cheering chant from other india prime minister narendra modi appeared on screen at this form one of fifteen thousand across the country for party workers and volunteers of india's governing party and people here backed the government in any confrontation with pakistan. the soldiers who died in the recent attack he must avenge that he is doing absolutely that i think. he should explore possibilities of peace going forward but the way he has responded was very quick because we had to show that we are no weak links. but there are concerns the situation is being politicized stead of being deescalated anything that is going to happen at this point of time will be politically this saddle it says india's air strike on tuesday which the government targeted its august on against our group jaish e mohammad lack the strategy of

a military operation against such groups as it was unexpected given anything that we have seen or whether counted it is a mini auto actually the history of the missions to go that deep into pakistan where they may have strike what could be achieved now is a question that wouldn't matter but certainly it was unexpected and it was printed . in the some worry that the need to restore kabul situation was not being given full priority as debate continues here in new delhi. and around one point on the baltics of all the people who. are the ones being put at risk. in the line of mark . in the capital of indeed administered kashmir hospital staff and trina group painted red cross logos on the roofs hoping somehow spare them the case of an airstrike and there's heightened security and restrictions in some parts of the region. jets were hovering over the region all night was not an option all is happening. in the last seventy years about four times india and pakistan have

fought a war the question still remains the same if they all sit together and resolve this issue once and for all this is going to be good for both india. and particularly for kashmir. but with india's general election due to take place in a few weeks time is concerned the current military confrontation with the schmear will remain unresolved its politics takes center stage. venezuela's opposition leader one who has been holding talks with brazil's right wing president amid his country's ongoing power struggle where though many. in brazil said there was no chance of dialogue with president nicolas for the u.s. government without discussing elections the opposition leader also says he'll travel to part of why on friday before heading back to venezuela a lesson has been following the story let's go over to him in bogota and find out more do we know the details or at least some of the points that.

will have been speaking about. well we heard from both of them at the end of what was a private meeting their stand at the trade balance between the two countries the economic relationship was a very important part of what they discussed that's because. both are natural and wise all would be interested in restarting that economic relationship as soon as the democratic transition begins inside the business where a lot of the trade balance between the two countries as falling dramatically from what why don't i said in the last few years that given the economic situation inside the business as a reduction in exports and imports between the two countries and the great

reduction in the oil production inside when it's put out which way the expense is also affecting brazil then it's when i went from producing more than three million barrels of oil a day to less than one million and we're going to spend all this good change it's a transition towards democracy it's always free elections started in inside venezuela was a natural and inspired once again pledged full support to the venezuelan opposition but fell short there from issuing threats against an equal and i do it all or breaking relationship with minutes when because we we know that a lot of the neighboring countries not all but a lot of them would very much like to see a transition an official transition in venezuela with one guy do as as the new leader oh certainly at any rate not do it all but short of some kind of their say military intervention what options are open to them. well

i don't think they really know because they're saying that they don't see any possibility in beginning or interesting beginning a dialogue around last month says accept the idea of opening that's when vission the idea of early presidential elections and that they would have to be free elections with the international monitoring which the opposition says wasn't the case in the last elections and venezuela it's also clear that there is no appetite to monga supporters. even considering at least for now the possibility of a foreign intervention the government of both tonight or has been quite clear that they would never give the use of their territory for any eventual intervention or part of the united states or even coalition of their life you know american

countries so it's very difficult to see how any of this could break this stalemate that is going on inside venezuela at this point there is more and more international pressure there are three playing sanctions the bad as long as they're not the widow has the support of the military and controls most of the state's institution it's very difficult to see how this could change the salute and take full of the old twists and turns of that story joining us live from bogota thank you. at least five people have been killed in an attack apparently targeting the home of a judge in mogadishu police say a car bomb was detonated in a plot to assassinate of bashir omar the chief judge of somalia's appeals court after the blast near his house security forces fought off gunmen who tried to force their way inside it's not clear who carried out the attack but al shabaab

frequently carries out bombings and shootings in the country. now for the second time in just three days an ebola treatment center has been attacked in the eastern democratic republic of congo the latest attack targeted a center run by the french medical charity doctors without borders in the eastern town of temple armed attackers set fire to the building before being fought off in a gun battle with security forces four people with confirmed cases of the highly contagious virus fled the scene and are still missing well on sunday the brother of a patient was killed when another treatment center was burnt to the ground just a few kilometers away in cap well it's not known who is responsible but several armed groups operate in the volatile border region and there is some mistrust of foreign health workers well since the current ebola outbreak began last august there have been five hundred fifty three confirmed deaths and another three hundred people believed to be infected. once in a poignant point. this is the first time anybody the outbreak has

happened in such an unstable and insecure area like eastern congo it's a challenge for us on a daily basis for all the team to answer the call to fight against the epidemic the events in the last forty hours definitely are a big deal but even so what seems important to us is that eastern congo is a zone we know particularly well where m.s.f. has intervened for a long time ago having access to health care. senate president reconcile has won a second term in office with fifty eight percent of the vote over six million senegalese people voted on sunday to elect a new leader senegal's prime minister had already claimed victory for south but the opposition rejected that and demanded a runoff has more now from the capital dhaka. more outside monkey cells headquarters and people have come here to celebrate the news that he has won with more than fifty eight percent of the code only that people came out in number in

record numbers sixty eight percent of the lecturer came out to vote during this election st louis has a mandate from a large part of the people but there are those who haven't voted for him a lot of young first time voters who decided to vote for the opposition candidate was monsanto he's the outsider the anti establishment. candidate and he has campaigned on the issue of unemployment to try to stop so many senegalese from migrating going across the mediterranean to europe he says the issue that people want is electricity water health care no these are the issues that much the cell will have to address during his five year mandate but it's clear that his campaign he's going through the last two weeks going across across various regions of senegal promoting his his last monday were. one infrastructure project after

another that you know the building what he has achieved during his time in office the life of senegalese has gotten better the economy is growing at the rate of more than seven percent this capital has and you train line a new airport and these are all the cubans that seem to speak to the majority of senegalese. take a look now at the top stories making the news on al jazeera israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases that are now is hit back saying the charges will collapse in his words like a house of cards. for three years they have been conducting against a political witch hunt unprecedented witch hunt which aims to topple right wing government and bring to power the leftist party of law. but inhumane pressure on

the state attorney general of the united nations says the israeli crackdown on palestinian protesters in gaza may amount to war crimes u.n. investigators say israeli soldiers intentionally opened fire on civilians israel has rejected the report branding it hostile untrue and biased u.s. president donald trump says he had to walk away from a nuclear deal with north korea because of unacceptable demands from kim jong un trump said their second summit came to an abrupt end and early end because kim wanted washington to lift all its sanctions in order to progress with the nuclearization while trump is now flying back to washington d.c. and right into the heart of a political storm his former lawyer michael cohen is giving evidence to congress for a third day after slamming his former boss in a public testimony on wednesday from past said that cohen's revelations are ninety five percent lies. pakistan's prime minister says his country will release on

friday a captured indian pilot as a gesture of peace india and pakistan each say that they shot down each other's fighter jets over the disputed kashmir region where tensions have been escalating in recent weeks and venezuelan opposition leader why go has been meeting with brazil's president thabo sonar on the latest leg of his tour of south american allies white though said there was no chance of dialogue with president of the us government without discussing elections will now head for part of why on friday before going back to venezuela well of those a war the headlines here an al-jazeera stay with us as the scream asks who can beat donald trump in twenty twenty well that's quite a question that's coming up on the street thanks more news in half an hour thanks for watching.

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