interesting that global perspective. binyamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz both claim victory in the israeli elections. follow on down jordan is on to zero live from doha also coming out algeria is interim leader promises to hold elections quickly but the country's way forward remains deeply. setbacks for you and i think refugees trapped at detention centers in libya fighting around the capital continues. adding pressure from the u.s. congress to end american involvement in the war in iraq.

but more than ninety percent of votes counted in israel's general election the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is liquid party has won the most seats but only just earlier in the night netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz both declared victory are a force that reports now from tel aviv. after a night of wild be diverging exit polls benjamin netanyahu waited and waited until it started to move in his favor at two in the morning he took to the stage to declare what he called an unimaginable victory. but we've. already tonight i have started talks with the heads of the right wing parties our natural partners already tonight almost everyone declared publicly that they will recommend i form the next government they will recommend it to our president i intend to work quickly to establish a stable national government i want to make it clear it will be a right wing government but i intend to be the prime minister of all israeli citizens right or left jews and non jews alike israeli citizens.

the proven master of israeli electoral politics well aware that his carefully cultivated right wing block of smaller parties gives him the edge in the decisive business of building a governing coalition but across town in tel aviv there had already been another declaration of victory benny gantz israel's former army chief and leader of the blue and white party put together in essence to remove netanyahu from power said he should be given the opportunity to do just that if you want to see winners and losers in elections but we have to win as we might be new but we're not naive we understand we've got to wait for the true results but within a few days will work to calm a government as big as possible. it's up to israel's president ruben rivlin to invite the most likely prime minister to form a coalition balancing two factors who leads the biggest party and who has the clearest path to a governing bloc for netanyahu that's complicated by

a couple of his natural allies such as his education ministers under threat new right to party hovering around the threshold for a place in the israeli parliament or knesset for a time palestinian israeli parties warning their voters that low turnout could threaten their presence in the knesset as well they complained of intimidation by liquid activists bringing hidden cameras to the polls this bruising bitterly contested election is not over just yet the challenger is raising his arm in victory but netanyahu insists he has done enough to retain the title after a fernet. final few days of campaigning in which he feared to the right from a sing to an extent legal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and convinced his voters that his premiership was in mortal danger. but you know he's leaving this ligi jellyfish bomb ready to leave the political division. one mission like it's a. check against the rocks pieces to define. this

election very very. well as another. article is about a little. well as he mentioned there in his report there are one hundred twenty seats in the israeli parliament or knesset to make it in a party needs to win at least three point two five percent of the total votes that's about four seats but no party has ever achieved an outright majority and sixty one seats and needed to form a government with a president will choose the candidate he thinks has the best chance of forming a coalition as person then has forty two days to form a government if they can't the leader with the second best chance gets twenty eight days to try and failing that it can even go to a third candidate al jazeera senior political analyst model and the sharia says netanyahu will most likely form the next government you have here a leader who is for a long time now accused of racism corruption. of being

a crook. potentially indicted on frequent option charges not one not two. basically failed. throughout the four terms he served in attaining peace or security for him or for the people on that occupation so really all in all he succeeded in certain parts in terms of. economic record bizarros certain achievements in high thickens also hold but on the overall questions of peace and security he failed miserably and as he as i said on top of all and that's very important that israel is once again electing basically a next prime minister of a man who is going to be indicted on people up in charges and who's accused widely of being a racist either but netanyahu just is not incorrect he did get more votes than ever before. than two thousand and fifteen two thousand nine hundred ninety six to get

he got more seats he didn't need to get no less maybe as much as guns but he will form the next government gerrard's interim leader has pledged to hold free and fair elections within ninety days a bill called have been solid says he has no political ambitions of his own will set up an independent committee to oversee the poll but many algerians remain skeptical. now reports. this is the man who will lead algeria for ninety days until a new president is elected. the speaker of the upper house of parliament. was appointed interim president by the parliament a few days after of lies he's beautifully how he signed his decision followed weeks of unprecedented protests against his will but with a political as 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 votes and inefficient governors 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 departments 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 continue years the same protesters who wanted. out unhappy with appointed 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 need you. we are here so the ones who are governing the country leave because they are robbing and not building the country they are destroying it i was here is political crisis began in february when president but a plea announced he would be seeking a fifth term in office he had been in power since one thousand nine hundred nine but barely seen in public since some. bring a stroke in two 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 at the national unity government to

lead the transition to democracy i should buy a bottle of al-jazeera. buffy's a research fellow at the think tank new america where he specializes in arab and islamic affairs he says a small group of strong men are desperately trying to hold on to power. it's a clique of it elites politicians businessmen in the military but the military doesn't seem to go along with the with the speaker of the parliament's call for ninety days elections in ninety days the defense ministry has issued no statement supporting that so that's the big question now is which way the defense ministry in the military is going to go and nobody wants to give up their seat and their perks so that's a big problem that said it's impossible to reform a system such as out years and place since one thousand nine hundred sixty two there can be incremental reform there can be move towards political liberalization and more freedoms but you can't start the whole system from scratch the military as

a unified stance we don't see what's called fashion was ation in the officer corps entered internecine strife there's been the protesters have been very peaceful and civil you haven't seen the internal security services fire on the protesters so i think there's going to be some jockeying for power granted to seize but we want to see an explosion of violence as we've seen in other places in the middle east saddam's president is under increasing pressure as western nations out there have voiced a kohls the political change for a fourth day protest is of continued a sit in outside the compound housing omar al bashir his residence and the army headquarters at least twenty people have been killed since saturday and police have been ordered not to confront peaceful demonstrators the u.s. britain and norway put out a joint statement urging the sudanese authorities to deliver a credible plan for a political transition and a protester who wants to remain anonymous told on jazeera the sit in will continue until president bashir steps down we're going to live with them for the certain is

the press we did not have a rise for the first time ever we have some freedom. of speech expressing it. so basically we are expecting a good thing where more than a million years so close of all four take piece. which is the thirty three things very quickly lost members of the militias given the packing of since the start of this ship and everything to life. we are in that critical region. the security forces sceptical paul was. there shooting a with the. us the peaceful arm but the birds in the crowd why i think you guys i mean usually we have many injuries there's a limit to the opinions of the lower ranks officers responding by the people

to all these is happening with them with the high i'm not buying them they're there they're the raising that they don't have on this is the people. there defending us in the previous attacks. hard time for short break here al jazeera when we come back military a trade on the agenda as president trump welcomes egypt's leader to the white house . and a promise from the u.s. attorney general robert lawless report on president trump and russia will be released next week on that stay with us. out of the last the thunderstorms are blowing through the southeast the u.s. florida being the last to say goodbye and that would be i think during daylight hours now beyond behind it's all fine sunshine but there's a creeping finger of snow which will be of interest it's a pro it's not that unusual but the amount might be surprising because as the

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of the top stories here on the al-jazeera prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on course to win israel's election but ninety six percent of the votes counted is ahead of his main rival. earlier claimed victory. interim president is promising free elections within ninety days but. says he won't be on the ballot take over from the take a permanently from. protesters remain unconvinced and lead to a political overhaul. the president is on the increasing pressure to hundred the power as western nations join protesters calls for political change at least twenty people have been killed since saturday but i'm sitting outside. his residence the army headquarters in khartoum. now the u.n. security council is set to hold another emergency meeting on the escalating violence in libya at least forty seven people have been killed in the latest fighting forces loyal to the warlord after carried out an airstrike on tripoli's airport that's prompted the un's envoy to libya to postpone

a national reconciliation conference shuttled next week meanwhile the u.n. is trying to get refugees out of detention centers near tripoli but the head of its refugee agency has told al-jazeera the fighting is making those efforts increasingly dangerous. you know it's always been quite difficult to conduct this operation in libya which is an extremely fragile country not just in security terms but in institutional terms of as well with many parts of the country controlled by militias by armed groups but now the danger has this morning in spite of that my colleagues braving the bullets really literally managed to evacuate the hundred and fifty refugees from one of the of those terrible detention centers to a safer place but for how long we be able to do that unless he sees as the secretary general has called i don't know. has more now from tripoli.

here in the city center of the libyan capital live looks normal it's totally different from the situation on the outskirts of the capital where the fighting is going on between forces loyal to the world a lot of on the one hand and forces loyal to the chip police based government of national accord on the other hand but people here are still there are still very worried they say that they're worried that the fighting in the outskirts of tripoli might affect their lives here especially economy they're afraid that the value of the libyan dinar might be decreased again because of the fighting also they're worried that other sectors might be affected by the fighting like education and health sectors many people here are counting on the u.n. sponsored peace talks as a way out of the ongoing crisis but as the united nations support the mission in

libya has postponed their general national conference that was supposed to be held and the city over the dam is on the fifteenth of this month many people here are now uncertain they were counting on the that conference as a way hour to put an end to their ongoing fighting and their transition transitional phases in libya by sitting dates for general elections but all of that rental company b. and b. will allow property listings on the israeli occupied west bank reversing its previous stance the u.s. company insists it never had a policy of supporting a boy calls in israel but it says all profits made from rentals in the occupied west bank will be donated to charity lawsuits were filed against the plans to delist properties in the area seized by israel in the one nine hundred sixty seven war. your speaker of the house nancy pelosi wants the president to end american involvement in the war in yemen by signing a resolution passed. by congress last week he says

a situation in yemen has left an indelible scar stain on the conscience of the world donald trump has said he will veto the measure white house statement says support for the saudi led coalition in yemen does not mean the u.s. is engaged in hostilities. the present my son this legislation were so bipartisan by camel legislation that we were sending him to advance a peaceful enduring solution to her breath that the military. thank you again for this important step in shining a spotlight on what happened but happening in yemen. making. setting the standard for what kind of military cage meant we take pride in how we support other nations and how that is the impact that that has on human dignity of the people in the of those countries in this case yet. the gypsum president. has held talks with u.s.

president donald trump in washington the to discuss the challenges facing the middle east troubles also under pressure to address egypt's human rights record a white house correspondent kimberly harkat reports from washington. a regal like welcome at the white house by u.s. president donald trump for egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi we've never had a better relationship egypt and the united states than we do right now as the two sat down in the oval office trump praised the egyptian leader calling him a friend gave the endorsement was seeking i don't know about the effort i can just tell you. this stately reception is exactly what senior republicans and democrats had discouraged in a letter to the trump white house seventeen senators urged to address egypt's are roshon of political and human rights amnesty international estimates tens of

thousands of people are locked in egyptian jails for their political views twelve of them are u.s. citizens under the current president egypt has chosen a dangerous path typical paranoid. regime leahy is pushing to stop the sale of one billion dollars worth of apache helicopters to egypt the us provides egypt one point three billion dollars of military aid annually despite concerns about egypt's human rights record the trumpet ministration has continued to push for increased military cooperation. i want to give credit to president trump in strengthening the relationship on all fronts militarily economically and culturally. but members of congress question egypt's loyalties and deepening relationship with russia after moscow granted a loan to build egypt's first nuclear power plant and there are concerns about

these attempt to lengthen his stay in office with changes to egypt's constitution that could keep him in power until twenty thirty four the egyptian parliament is set to vote on those constitutional amendments next week further raising. suspicions about the timing of the egyptian leaders visit to the white house the meeting is nothing more than an elaborate photo opportunity designed to help the egyptian leader maintain his hold on power can really help at al-jazeera the white house the u.s. attorney general has told congress him release a reductive version of the mother report within a week william boss fights pressure to publish the full report on the russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election won by president trump but he says some information will be blacked out because it's too sensitive wells and jordan has the details from washington d.c. three u.s. attorney general william barr got to talk about the reason why he was called before a house appropriations subcommittee on tuesday the budget for the u.s.

justice department which he had but mr barr also got a lot of questions mainly from congressional democrats about the moeller report a report that is said to be more than four hundred pages long but of which mr barr wrote a four page summary and turned over to calm words soon after march twenty fourth well mr barr had then had to explain to members of the subcommittee including its chair jose serrano just how it was he put together this four page summary and how he got input or didn't get it mr miller's team did not play a role in drafting that document although we offered him the opportunity to review it before we sent it out and he declined that i would work diligently to make as much information public as i could in available to congress's or could you recognize that i'm operating under regulation that. it was put together during the

clinton administration and does not provide for the publication of the report but i am relying on my own discretion to make as much public as i can mr barr said that he is on track to make public a version of the report by the middle of april that's in the next week but he also said that he has to make certain that he is holding back or redacting information that either goes to criminal investigations or perhaps could reveal intelligence sources and methods one thing that he did not confirm is whether or not he would be looking at using executive privilege the president's right to keep communications private when it comes to releasing the report mr barr said that he believes in transparency but there were some on this congressional panel that indicated they didn't exactly believe him. now in your

leaders will consider allowing the u.k. to remain in the european union for another year with the option of leaving early if the deal is ratified britain's prime minister has met key e.u. leaders ahead of an emergency summit in brussels on wednesday without the approval of the block the u.k. will crash out on friday really challenge reports. 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 the almost two hundred m.p.'s who voted for the deal concert 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 there's no 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. come to the merkel corrected you know fortune of a steak. dinner 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. 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 a huge 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 under. colombia's president joseph used to meet indigenous leaders as promised because of a dispute over his security do pay was due to meet community members after protesters hit a major road they've been blocking for nearly a month the blockade of the pan-american highway ended after the government pledged to invest in social projects in indigenous areas around petit has more from bogota

. situation remains the same say between indigenous communities and the government on tuesday a delegation traveled to the capital. to participate in a rally during the national day for the victims of colombia's internal conflict. the rally comes after the government negotiates a demand for twenty seven day long blockade in the south of the country that paralyze commerce causing gasoline shortages a police officer and a protester died during the clashes last saturday the government agreed to invest more than two hundred fifty million u.s. dollars in core in the jewish communities to end the blockade on tuesday president it was expected to meet indigenous leadership in the region but that meeting was cancelled over differences on the location of the encounter the government says

that it had information of a possible attack on the president on part of armed group operating in that region they know just a journalist but no she beat him if we don't continue protesting our rights will become invisible get we need the government to listen once and for all colombians indigenous community have a long series of grievances and a long history of agreements that successful governments have failed to comply with to the question is if this failed meeting now will mean a return of the blockade and more violent confrontations. now an exhibit featuring impressionist masterpieces is on display in morocco. the museum of modern and contemporary art has worked on monday says. the colors of impressionism exhibit will be in about until august. a quick note from the world of sport basketball legend magic johnson has resigned from his post at the los angeles

lakers at an impromptu news conference johnson told reporters he wants to get back to the simple life before becoming president of basketball operations the lakers are on a six consecutive losing season in the n.b.a. even after bringing in the superstar le bron james. for a turn for a quick check of the headlines here the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on course to win the election with ninety six percent of the vote counted he's ahead of his main rival benny gantz earlier both claim victory. i'm very excited that the people of israel gave me their trust for a fifth time and if they could trust them before. i'm telling you again the people of israel gave their trust for us and this is

a president i cannot remember when we got more seats according to most exit polls the right are going will continue to lead the state of israel in the next four years. because they said we would not go into politics and we did not they say we want connectivity and they said we want you not to say we want to mean and we will and we want. algeria as interim president promising free elections the ninety days bill carter been solid says he won't be on the ballot to take over permanently from because he's beautiful but just to remain unconvinced of lead to a political overhaul so bans president sounding creasing pressure to have the powers western nations join protesters calls for political change at least twenty people.