al-jazeera. and. this is al-jazeera. fell on a clock this is the out syrian news from london coming up in the program. polls close in israel's election with both of the main kind of it's claiming victory. algeria's interim president addresses the nation calling for unity on his appointment sparked further protests. in sudan seven protests as a killed a major demonstrations calling for president i'll but she had to resign. and the u.k. prime minister seeks a european support for her plan to delay breck's it again. and.

with all the base thoughts coming up later this news will have the results will you of the first quarter finals of this season's european champions. so then both main kind it's in israel's election of claim victory exit polls show that prime minister benjamin netanyahu and opposition leader benny gantz are neck and neck netanyahu is trying to remain in office for his main rival gun surge the country to embrace a new dawn when he calls his ballot in tel aviv all the channel twelve preliminary exit poll shows that prime minister benjamin netanyahu is likud party has thirty three seats and many guns his blue and white coalition policy has thirty seven seats let's join of course one hundred i go home and who is at the headquarters of pentagon says blue and white. it's all connect to tight to cool too close to call

it what suits the scene like there looks pretty quiet behind you. but actually what you see just behind me is actually the judus below that this is actually quite a crowd of people cheering they've been killed and many didn't even figure out this why and the list will be afeared here very soon as you said. yeah who have declared victory even though it's really not set in stone either for everything the final result has still nice house and really old attention now to this mall parties who managed to go up above that threshold that would allow them to mindanao for seats in the. parliament and. that so actually could. be winners or losers tonight however we did

also hear from president rivlin we're at the end of the day like with his regime still this in the past he will be the man who decides a lot of things here he made it very clear that if indeed as the. will indicate. that they were to do list so badly yes yes for the more bills a source are the biggest part of the dairy law they might have to where a well give him first it sounds too for this coalition government even though maybe the numbers in the total numbers would show that benjamin netanyahu has a bigger chance to its own still up in the air even though there is an atmosphere of victory here among the supporters of the good was listed certainly there is also an atmosphere oh yes

a sense of victory above the supporters of benjamin they did now and it is meet with party so these days crowds are making white noise that they are behind you would not actually need to happen to them to truly celebrate because it is more than see here will be could just make all the difference could be that. is absolutely this is the one oddity mare's say about israeli politics is that you have the big parties that get that chunk of the vote but then they can't make this household these small part is this is an election where you had forty different parties competing and then you have about forty twelve to fourteen won't make them national and so small parties get to me then become the most important what their leaders say our studio and the polls are how it will be really an indication of where things are good with the radio heard through social media and some of the

collaboration of some of the pilot parties that indicated specially the the right and the far right ones that they would give their they would recommend benjamin they turned out to the president of the other party sad well we have to still wait to see the final results the vote. it made our mind it is a quite unique system but certainly the small parties are the kingmakers i think also the overall picture of this election is that the left in israel is in this survey yes there is a labor got there sees it that they're said but very low and they would have a very little voice if any in whatever happens in this country in the coming months and probably years so this is a country that has that for me to do right different shades of right from the far right to what people here for the moderate right but certainly the left at this

point is our right and given what you've just said how much difference will it make . as to who actually becomes prime minister whether it's netanyahu. but i think the main difference when you speak to the israelis is the former rather than the substance israelis do want a strong man and leading their country when it comes to matters of security they do box some of the likud voters have been quite highly rated by how things have turned they believe they some of them have complained that they found that. the lesser a government dividend yeah there are become a way to the buy say some have complained that you know you told the races so i think that is what they get from they get and this co-chair you hear left be as you know more subtle way of expressing their self but the substance is more or less the

same thing and manager you have also made that the our their campaign they've they've seen this rivalry between two strong personalities but they haven't really heard the mark of the substance or the difference some have this have been saying that this is the dirtiest. election campaign that they have. in their living time and have been for the played a much about it but i think from what we have heard here it's much more about the form about trying to keep the country have been less divided and trying to have a bit of a less aggressive rhetoric that we heard also live aggressive rhetoric for example today's route that they've been jumping to ten yeah all social media telling me who would support just below out to vote because if you don't vote then you will have every party's part of it was you you would also have the left part of the of a coalition that we had on the other side of the bed he gets most of all social

media polling done this supporters to fill out the vote accusing the two of lying trying to create some sort of panic that has been a very very aggressive campaign in both directions that he really didn't give until the very last minute and one should also argue that now his exit polls out you still have this stuff stat from both men who say we won. because no not yet but we are expecting benny gantz to have fear on this stage any time soon and you can you can hear the tone and the anticipation among his supporters getting more and more impatient and excited about that or her will be back with you soon as the pentagon says takes to the stage to listen in to his speech in the meantime both candidates as we've been discussing are claiming victory over twitter as you

do these days so opposition leader benny gantz tweeted we won the people of israel have spoken thanks to thousands of activists and they were a million votes is. in these elections there is a clear winner and a clear loser benjamin netanyahu promised forty seats and lost big time the president sees the picture and the government should be cost on the when there is no other option that's what he said but meanwhile the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he said he tweeted the right wing blog led by le could one a clear victory i thank the citizens of israel for their trust i will begin forming a right wing government with national partners to night. ok we're going to we're keeping the beady eye on that stage at. headquarters because benny gantz is jus to come out in a moment now but not appearing just at this moment in time so in the meantime we will speak to a cross when harry forsett who's at the likud party headquarters been in the

netanyahu is headquarters in also in tel aviv and harry plenty of noise there at benny gantz is headquarters how is it where you are. all this this body of noise the p.a. system is turned up pretty loud but i have to say there isn't a huge turnout here just at the moment there is enthusiasm on the floor we've been down there walking around amongst the politicians and the activists who are down there all of whom are saying that you know i was pulled it out again he is brought victory to the right wing bloc of israel we spoke to one candidate and you can get it to me how sheer number twenty nine on the likud list which means that if these polls are correct she is comfortably in the new knesset and she said that this was a clear expression from the voters of israel but they wanted to continue with

a strong right wing bloc however beneath that kind of talk there is yet to be a fully victorious party going on here and that's because everyone is well aware of the kinds of things that i was just talking about the fact that a lot of these counts still have to come in a lot of the margins a very very small and very very consequential if for instance two of the natural allies eventually netanyahu arabesque it again saying that it is going to jump to has a cause that the opposition headquarters the blow my headquarters we are now seeing benny gantz on stage came on stage hugged everybody and now he's going to speak and i'm hoping that we can all listen in. let's give it a try and see what he has to say.

just t.c. as we take in the of the crowd it have to reemphasize it's not yet clear who has won this election it's too close to cool at this moment in time both candidates have claimed victory and exit polls show you that prime minister binyamin netanyahu and the opposition leader who are looking at right ahead penny counts are neck and neck and let's have a listen to what they need guidance has to say. shallow . friends. my partner spoke to my family all guests. surely that allow me to begin. you've ok.

i. love you. ok ok friends you both car you have a car. god will bless you. yeah that's a little of the you know we. are not the lives our. lives are known. luke. and bring peace upon you god or good oh great light friends new york is showing up in israel this is a real story a bucko you have more than the millions of people. who gave us. their protein. blues and rock it's.

our notion our society chose. to connect and unite. behind to run away from the theme should be their differences but hard to be stripped of pool you chose your team i chose a corporation and i'm really happy i'm just attitude that shows that we can connect done things up. something that is achievable. we would say. i'd like to go again yet year bogey. to thank you. on d.c.'s route. and your will to work together be done. no. none of us got.

by himself. thank you very much. the whole is greater than it's hot. i know. we are sick of it being your mean that you are saying you know binyamin netanyahu. for his service to the nation. and to say. that we have great differences. seems to need to be we will ignore though this may be due. to respect. people's. will. degrade should be to want.

to make a new government. if you want to be in their losers and we know that elections have been that and we do realize. the stream we might be new. but we're not naive and we need to understand that. she can we understand that we need to turn wait for the true results will be within the next few days we live. as needed should be done to form a government is. as possible. yes. yes friends. it is the political class they said we will not go into politics and we did not

they say we want connection to it they said we want unite and we teach they say we want sweden and we will and we want. friends. it's not moving and. we won and we look a keep on then and few minutes and i'll tell you how i'm not sure. be it we would do it not only with our size but the route we are

taking. and the route to be one of respect to anyone everyone to respect past and present and the future has to remember to change the discourse they're not going to just as we did. in the company. and this is how we will make an effort. no q divorce. going to be humble. and to remember those. soldiers who fail along the way each. while protecting israel. and paid with their lives. and the missing soldiers we have to bring home thank. you and to remember.

that we have the family. of those who died. and. we're still paying the price of believing in the state of israel and that our society. should be united. rather than. fighting with each other. and to form a reconciliation cabinet here in order to do so yes for and he said. i will be everyone's prime minister not only the middle school thank you for us. no one. no one who. is not in our party should fear from us we

only have to feed in. the common things we believe you know and understand. and to do good and positive we will have a challenger to ban me netanyahu fifty nine year old benny gantz definitively claiming victory saying i will be everybody's prime minister in the next press saying we need to wait for true results and over the next few days more work is needed to form a. government as big as possible let's cross to hold a homemade who's at the headquarters there listening into the speech and the whole to the truth isn't it the final results are actually still too close to cool so isn't he being a bit premature. well one would think so but he seems to be quite confident that he has one and he has actually repeated it several times throughout his speeches so far. as

surprised me noticing the seventy seven about seventy to seventy three percent of the total votes that have been down to it and as you said over exit polls shows so far have sold them neck and neck or even sometimes more than once to benjamin is and you know that. was part of it but it's still a very close call but he is showing a certain confidence he understands any gads any activity basically preceded by his rousing campaign if people have decided to vote against the vision repeated that he would have made that he will be more program mistake and that everybody had said and i think it was pointing out to me put it to me that now they said sixty six they said it will be night it will be night. when it

comes to security you have a lot of people next month on the stage you have the co-chair guy here let me then the next and then you have two former chiefs of staff moshe ya'alon that gabby x.p. doesn't so that's out that image of the lead strong military men who had been quite successful in their career and that is also very appealing to the israeli electorate those who voted for do blue and white list because security does. remains a huge issue even if it was not the primary concern throughout this campaign and it's very clear from one has been saying he played it on the fact of bridging the gaps. in the israeli society he repeated over and over again and he said that actually it would be a priority that he is even though he does as he says he doesn't change something to at least we don't know but he's certainly more right leaning then left the need to

distance himself sort of in the same to you have all of that. for a lot of liberals in the stands even some leftist we spoke to some voters earlier today who said if i had to follow my own beliefs and my own ideology i would probably vote. but i think strategically and. vote for the blue and white party a lot of people wanted to see benjamin netanyahu defeated and that is not set in stone either yet and as you said like it's a it might be a bit premature for many ganske to declare victory but clearly it's several times already tonight here in early. on twitter and now we still have to wait for the final results and see what's going to happen after that and even if you get the numbers that have a total number to form a coalition which is the only thing that makes or breaks the winner of any election

in this country court order leave it there for a month thanks very much indeed one hundred in tel aviv let's separate in akiva eldar who's a columnist at israel pulse monitor and he joins us live also from tel aviv. what's your take on what's going on here is all very confusing and now we have any guns coming out saying that i will be the prime minister of the people and so forth you've obviously seen many israeli elections what's your take on what's going on. i think the a major player was not available tonight this is the eternal general and what we see right now is the promo to the main show and the main show will start wide now with the hearing of mr newton you know he may be the prime minister but not for too long it may day

maybe seven eight months before the turner general well designed and i believe he will decide to indict netanyahu and. no matter who will be the who will get the mandate from the president to form a government and i believe it's time you know what we will not see is any breakthrough you know relationship with the palestinians and the our world and this is a very sad moment it's not the kind you know has a coalition. of the likud and the more extra right but. even if you look at the list of the. blue and white party you have the former minister of defense in a townhouse government his former spokesman and his former secretary of cabinet so what we this rally people want is

probably the. ear perpetration of the yoke of your patient and maybe we are heading towards upon. these ready people didn't vote for peace and this is from here very sad moment ok well come on that little bit more to that in a second and also the indictment but just to clarify what you think is going on here so many guns is coming out he's claiming victory but this is all part of the act is it will probably has same from been netanyahu when you think that netanyahu probably will have enough to remain as prime minister. down the law in the in might change things but as far as this election goes is that what your take is. yes. people. you know what we have to remember what happened in the elections in the tourney i ended up number two with kadima headed by simply livni ahead of

him where his they remember i think i remember correctly that she ended up with twenty eight men dates and then he could with twenty seven but still he managed to form a government n.c.p. litany stayed in the opposition so there is another option which is a unity government but i don't think that this is likely to happen regardless of the guns didn't hulet out when he was asked it is possible he said a unity government with the likud but not with the likud headed by netanya. but i don't believe that this will happen because there is. very very little trust between the two between ateneo and guns and most of them will not trust the other that he will not move towards the orthodox parties and form

a minority government with them but i don't see barry guns convincing. lieberman from drying or even it will be very difficult for him if you look at the blocks to work with the other parties first of all there is one are probably one of the two you know they split this death is right now below the threshold so we don't even know if he will have fifty five or fifty six and i believe that the other parties from the right and from the center also claim there are certain there would rather go with netanyahu than with guns. so you know it's like your point is that it's true close to call and there still will be soldiers votes to be counted but if i had to bet

who is going to be the next prime minister it is not time the out but what we saw today is maybe the next prime minister after turning out right because that's we're going to leave it there to appreciate your perspective on this it's very valuable to us we appreciate it very much and much to discuss in the coming days from the peace process of course not you know who's potential indictment but in the meantime thank you very much indeed thank you nic still to come this news the united nations warns it's becoming increasingly dangerous for refugees in libya. iran's president warns his country could develop further nuclear technology if washington continues to exert pressure. on president trump locks a deal for cuban baseball players to play in the u.s. major league peta will be here with more in sport.

that is the wolf of spring is leaked away from the netherlands and germany is the winds become a northerly another leases masterclass stretching from greece through france and germany to england it's disappointing whether it's cloudy and it's often reading its position for wednesday the temperature underneath will be barely double figures it's going to feel cold as well and even medicine is further west that northerly breeze suggests showers the building of a spade and verbally our eggs in southern france as well and with that no only breeze still blowing overnight is going to be cold enough for the snow briefly to bloom mostly of the mountains admittedly but nevertheless is quite a bit of a drop of snow for april and then without the seven degrees despite the sunshine in berlin the rain spreading to remain the left behind for back into its city as well for the western mediterranean is probably be full of showers some of which but not many will be pushed down to the coast out jerry or tunisia the sun's out in morocco

eighteen degrees just rising to ninety was disappointing i think in algiers and also in libya and there's a center of circulation forming there receives very big showers recently in nigeria and ghana they're still there but just the north in the sahara all temperatures are really quite high. we live in a time of war and tragedy it's crimes against humanity. activist repression. enforced disappearance arbitrary arrests. extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. who investigates who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to

combat impunity and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high commissioner. european parliament. and global alliance of national human rights institutions. and again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera both main candidates in israel's election of claim victory exit polls show the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and opposition leader benny gantz neck and neck. to algeria where the interim

president has called for unity and transparent and fair elections people have returned to the streets to protest the appointment of a cut they have been solid the seventy seven year old was chosen by parliament after weeks of demonstrations forced. to step down. as this report. this is the man who will lead for ninety days until a new president is elected the speaker of the upper house of parliament abdullah. was appointed interim president by the parliament a few days after our lives he's beautifully designed his decision followed weeks of unprecedented protests against his will but with a clear cause a replacement faces a daunting task he's widely unpopular and seen by many algerians as a member of the same elite accused of corruption begin votes and inefficient

governance eager to build bridges with skeptical opponents made to public statements on tuesday and announced the setting up of an independent committee to oversee the presidential elections in any actually i want to unify the nation and carry out elections which are transparent and proper the government will also instructed the department to supervise these elections honestly in a fair and impartial fashion i urge everybody to overcome our differences and work together to cooperate to lay the cornerstone for a new old area the interim president also emphasized he had no intention to run in the upcoming elections but on the streets the discontent cont'd years. the same protesters who wanted to flip out unhappy with appointment and they are determined to push for

a real change yes we have come out today in order to oppose ben salah ben so i leave we don't meet you. we're here so the ones who are governing the country leave because they are robbing and not building the country they are destroying in. a serious political crisis began in february when president but a announced he would be seeking a fifth term in office has been in power since one thousand nine hundred nine but barely seen in public since suffering a stroke into thousand and thirteen after weeks of protests calling for him to step down the army withdrew its support for the eighty two year old president and the jury has longest serving president eventually resigned but for many algerians their fight is far from over they want a clean sweep of the political establishment and the national unity government to

lead the transition to democracy. or let's take this on we can speak to nurse him a cherry who's an algerian journalist joins us live via skype from the capital is could you give us a sense of the reaction in algiers to the interim president's speech today. today i went to the bottom of this there were misread the difference in the knowledge you really are they are. against naming of. people and now i refuse an interesting or politician who's been involved in that would be as a regime and you during their twenty twenty plus years people are if he was in a million been silent and they are not trusting him to lead. the country and believe these transition period but lead to the. presidential elections you have to

wonder if every politician associated with the regime is deemed to be unacceptable who would be deemed to be acceptable to both sides and could resolve the situation where we can have a nuclear tipped presidency what action or question ality when not in more than in the regime that they can predict a government or transition period that will lead to a new constitution too and no new parliament there it can mean the one we are without. it is your sense that it's just the old guard buying time to ultimately change as little as possible then if that is the perception of the people on the streets clearly the speeches today were not enough to build bridges and so therefore what's going to happen. yeah the regime is trying to regenerate itself without the added events and the government especially in the

middle east government that may come in it and it's the last government. so we can't we can have a new brand new you know a new transition new on your name a critical election as we did with. regime so people in an outline for a new who are new will a new collegiate president seem that new person on the east and they are in two months if for tests next and it's flying again so the protests will go on all right mehsud will have to leave the nest a machete algerian gena speaking was there from algiers thanks a lot we're turning now to our top story the is red elections let's bring in our senior political analyst mark bashar joining us live from doha oh and you have seen benny gantz. addressing his adoring fans a claiming victory saying he would be a prime minister of the people little bit premature was. absolutely it's premature but you know you can't help but if the guy did when one

or two seats more than his rival netanyahu there's certainly a good grounds to go to to to to thank the base as it were and also to to project some sort of confidence the words the sun to towards the center and to the center right parties that probably are now thinking about what the future holds if they do decide to join a coalition with netanyahu and he finds himself under indictment and under investigation and perhaps more in few weeks and few months then maybe this is for them to be with a confident binny guns who's one more than that and you know and who's projecting confidence to words form a government so you know there's a case to be made for that but is it too early absolutely it's early do you think

that the benny gantz might have won. seats the normal votes in netanyahu with their full mean that netanyahu is more likely to be. facing proceedings in cool. no i think in israel in particular these are two separate issues and i think not the neo try to win his way out of indictment but everyone knows this is not possible there has been accusations that he will a soon as he forms the government try to instate some sort of what what's called the french law that allows him not to be indicted not to be. tried while being prime minister. but he has he says he denies that he has ever or he will do such a thing on the other hand i think for some of us who have a bit of a memory about israeli politics we remember all too well when back then in two

thousand and seven zero eight. netanyahu who was in the opposition kept blackmailing attacking criticizing the at the time who had all more of who was prime minister who was indicted and he said. a prime minister was indicted cannot carry his. job and hence must resign so for nothing else to be in the same position now and to form a government and to be indicted then on the under investigation you know that he must be he must accept his own advice if you will that he gave only a dozen years ago it. seems as if we're going to battle for the top but ultimately i guess the question is does it really matter is that the difference between the two men in the way they're going to shape the direction the israel takes especially on the palestinian issue. look the premise that the new has been quite

extreme and he he even threatened to be even more extreme talking about annex ation of of much of the west bank the occupied west bank that's all what's left if you will of palestine at this point in time to build a palestinian state he's also. wanted to join or probably will be joining with some of the most extreme right wing slash fascist parties in israel those who were criticized by american jewish leaders in america itself those who support netanyahu generally have criticized him for this such a potential coalition so that they know has gone too far by any measure and mostly supported by president trump on the other hand many in israel and and some among the palestinian leaders see in benny gantz a more reasonable leader who they can engage with even though he will not or he

does not accept a palestinian state does not accept withdrawing from is jerusalem all of the west bank and allowing for an independent palestinian state but they do think there is more room if you will they remind him of the likes of it would but iraq and. the likes of israeli generals who are interested in stability and who want to engage with the palestinians if that would lead to offer to a comprehensive solution unfortunately as i said he's not benny gantz is not offering the minimum requirement for peace at this point in time so is it not the nia who is it begun does it make any difference to the palestinians most palestinians would tell you it's the difference between being hanged to death or being shot to death so for the time being there's a lot of skepticism on the parts of the part of the palestinians and for good reason it remains to. we see in one last thing whether there will be this national

unity government between the code and blue white list and if that happens that will certainly be to the amount of the palestinians and to peace in the region or imo and thanks very much indeed now and wish our a senior political analyst let's move on to sudan where seven protesters have been killed on the fourth day of a mass city in an army headquarters the crowds and called team are demanding the removal of president bashir of the three decades in power for tour again because the latest. standing firm outside ami headquarters in the capital khartoum protest is chant down with the regime. ows a security force personnel opened fire on demonstrators in an attempt to break up their food a long mass sit in soldiers who saw the attack intervene to protect protest is letting them into the headquarters and shooting at the government security forces.

a spokesman for the minute truth says there is new splits in the armed forces and security forces remain united the model of the hope but i mean what about the police national security and intelligence forces are supported by the army we needed to consider certain things before moving the enthusiastic protesters outside the area very well prepared plan has helped us to control the situation in a peaceful way. some offices though have been openly siding with protest was never going to make it to all of you let me say that we're here now because we're taking the side of the people we're standing with the people nobody else. protesters and the opposition sudanese congress party a calling on president emile al bashir to resign they want the military's help in forming a transitional government the leadership of the army if they. are disposed to the name of the people they lead their response to the. the call of the

opposition they are in then getting the unity of god yourself on this will lead the country for chaos so i think they have no other option but to his ball positively to the demands of the people the governments imposed a state of emergency since february after that crackdown failed to stop the largest outcry during alba she's thirty year room. he's asked the ruling national congress party to help restore stability and. the government says change can come through the ballot box but protesters on the streets insist they want change now that tory gates and bay al-jazeera. britain's prime minister has met key leaders ahead of an emergency summit in brussels on wednesday it's reason may held talks with the french president to mental macro and germany's angela merkel hoping to convince the two to back her request to delay breaks it until june the thirtieth but he would

leave his resistance to a short delay with growing support for the block to grant a longer extension until december or maybe even to the end of march next year for a challenge as this. can anything save britain from its bricks in misery the government's withdrawal agreement has sunk beneath the waves in a compromise talks with the opposition labor party show few signs of compromise where heads continue the discussion somewhere looking forward to hearing what the government has to say those calling for a second referendum or increasing the hope with surprising new faces are joining their ranks like hugh merriman a conservative m.p. who wants bricks it and the people's vote that was my message in the whole that i wasn't preaching to the choir was he they want a people's vote because they want to go the complete opposite way that i do my message so they almost two hundred m.p.'s they voted for the deal conservative he's three times like i have is that if you want this thing through you've got to find

the best operators for it and that's going to be the people it's not parliament we don't know majority for the reason may has travelled to walk europe for a june thirtieth rex's extension it's been called her begging tour in germany in virtually and there was nobody to me to. angela merkel corrected the unfortunate mistake and. then on to paris the e.u. seems minded to give the u.k. longer to find a bricks a plan b. perhaps till the end of the year bracks or those who want the u.k. out on friday with no deal hates this idea and they are receiving warnings if we were trapped in against our will i believe we would become a trojan horse within the european union frustrate sheets and the wage unlikely to cooperate such language is being heard in europe so ahead of wednesday's brics it summit in brussels they're drafting conditions for any long extension. france for

example doesn't want the u.k. taking part in e.u. budget so so choosing the next european council president there's even talk of some sort of headmasters review in a few months time to make sure that the u.k. is behaving itself and it's difficult to see that going down in parliament or the country as anything other than another humiliation britain still technically leaves the e.u. at twenty two g.m.t. on friday but as the hours tick by rex it has never seemed so far away will reach alan's al-jazeera london. find out why every. from. head. business updates to you by. going places together.

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on. because he very much taught them how to pull off an upset victory over manchester city in the all english tie of the champions the quarterfinals leaving city with a battle not to be knocked out at this stage for the second year in a row so he missed a penalty in the first half in london when sergio a spot kick was saved. the visitors pay dearly for their twelve minutes before the end tottenham's korean star song young men scored the only goal of the games are spears take a one with advantage to next week second leg in manchester city were knocked out by liverpool in last year's quarter vinyls while that game was going on little who were hosting porter at anfield a two no victory over the portuguese club for last year's finalists navigator and

robertson for me no with the goals in the first half the other pay of first leg matches take place on wednesday. a two day rugby referendum is underway in france. whether or not they'd be happy to see a foreign coach take charge of the national team david stokes says the story. these amateur rugby players in paris can only dream of representing their country but they will have a big say in how the national team is coached after a string of dismal performances in the six nations championship french rugby chief bernard laporte wants to do something they've never done before hire a foreign coach but he's decided to put it up for a vote a rugby referendum across all amateur teams in the country asking them simply do they want a foreigner in charge. i don't care if the coach is french your foreign we need a coach who's capable of developing the team we need the right coach who can bring

back the values of iraq be and make people want to come back and watch again because it's losing its way. that. it's not for britain to have a foreign coach it would be a first i think the problem with the team is the player is not with a coach hiring foreign coach is nothing new in world rugby currently four of the six northern hemisphere teams are coached by foreigners the wales boss warren gatland a new zealander is said to be preferred choice if the referendum goes his way but there has been some high profile opposition the former fronts captain fabien pollute was quick to condemn the idea saying once again we will try to copy others instead of being proud of who we are not everyone shares that view that coach will be able to say that. and we start from scratch that's the idea of somebody able to start from scratch foreign coach or not it's clear that something

needs to change it's been nearly a decade since france won the six nations and the port is determined to have a strong team in place for the twenty twenty three world cup which is in france. for now though the future of french rugby is in the hands of the amateurs voting will last for two days and the result is set to be announced on friday david stokes al-jazeera. from rugby in europe to golf in the united states groupings for the first two rounds of the year's first major the marsters have been announced four time masters champion tiger woods will play alongside china's help song lee and john rom of spain would says he feels he could win his first major title since two thousand and eight i just feel like that i have improved a lot in the past twelve fourteen months but of more they have to prove to myself that i can play at this level again i work my way back to. you know one of the

players i can win a bit. a rule that made it easier for cuban baseball players to compete professionally in the u.s. has been scrapped by president trump the move rolls back an obama era agreement aimed at warming relations with the island the trump administration say the previous agreement breaks trade laws and promotes human trafficking and reports from miami. when president obama visited cuba in two thousand and sixteen it was hailed as a new era in u.s. cuba relations a so-called normalization process began to thought decades of animosity and part of that sore intense negotiations over of all things a sport both countries love baseball the two countries eventually agreed on a baseball player transfer deal it enabled cubans to play major league baseball in the u.s. without being forced to politically defect and then suffer being banned from ever returning to their home island but president trump has now scrapped the agreement

saying it violates u.s. trade laws that's because player transfers involved a payment to the cuban government's baseball federation something orlando gutierrez who broadcast radio programs to cuba says is a clear violation of the sixty year old u.s. embargo on cuba the idea that he will be for federation has an identity different and this thing from the common is totally false so all payments were would would have been made to the cuban government to the custody in order to buy these these players and slaves in havana the trumpet ministrations decision is being viewed as a loss for cuba but a level playing out this month says talented players will never realize their full potential any other semantic there yet another says it's broken the future for young players and this is you playing baseball playing ball in cuba in the beach santa maria beach county four year old gonzalo not i hope played in the major leagues his career in the u.s. began in the one nine hundred fifty s. during the cuban revolution the former pittsburgh pirates player says politics has

no place in sport but we are in the middle of the whole stuff there bob. how we call morrow that in the best way we can because we can all wrong congress or you who want to play baseball the cuban baseball federation say the decision only harms athletes and their families trump administration says when cuba is a democracy things will change in all more than thirty cuban players would you to transfer to major league baseball under the old bomber agreement but their fate now seems to have been sealed like many others seeking a better life in the united states their only option is to defect in a statement major league baseball said they stood by the goals of the agreement to end schuman trafficking from cuba and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida ok that's all the sport for now more coming up again later for now i'm going to hand you back to nic in london peter thank you very much look for the scene later well that's it for me in the club for this news but i will be back with more of the day's news in just a couple of minutes here in. i

made it every week in a nissan who brings a series of breaking stories until you've been listening feist as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that night and. on al-jazeera. driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was

palpable if you don't like was so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty idea if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world. methamphetamines from man ma a flooding into countries across asia. one zero one east asks why all pharmacies caught fade to stop the myth. on al-jazeera. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we learned that those infected from the government to just shoot him soon turned into a battlefront for the my jury and government that i am why. the torrijos for abducting more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing of displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins of bloody rise of iraq on

al-jazeera. israel's opposition leader benny gantz and prime minister benjamin netanyahu claim victory in a tightly fought election. i don't recall if this is on the line from london also coming up the program algeria's interim president addresses the nation calling for unity algiers a point spot for the protests in sudan seven protests as a killed a major demonstrations calling for president and i'll bet she had to resign. and the u.k. prime minister seeks european support for her plan to delay breaks it once again.