as you can see rather more active weather is still to be found on the eastern side of south africa and extends into mozambique. the official story is apparent. i don't care about the official story what has the media been telling me join me in front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues. a tie between the two main parties in israel but it's spending mean with the advantage for coalition talks.

i mean this is al jazeera live from also coming up i. four days of protests against the president continue into the night with the military's headquarters surrounded. algeria's interim leader calls for elections within ninety days but many say it's still not enough. and russia's president moves to secure moscow's foothold in the arctic. with ninety nine percent of votes counted in israel's general election it's still neck and neck between the prime minister binyamin netanyahu as the code party and its main rival benny gantz earlier on tuesday both declared victory neither side has secured an outright majority but it appears netanyahu could secure

a fifth term in office with the support of smaller right wing parties herefore said 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. 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 rights 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 for now . final few days of campaigning in which he feared to the right promising to an extent legal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and convinced his voters that his premiership was in mortal danger. leaving. only be ready to leave the. belief. you should. be getting the right pieces. in the selection very very. one thousand other. things you know little. or

less harry mentioned in his report there are one hundred twenty seats in the israeli parliament or knesset now to get in parties need to win at least three and of course a percent of the total votes that's about four seats sixty one seats on needed to form a government but no party has ever achieved an outright majority the president will choose the candidate he thinks has the best chances of forming a coalition this person then has forty two days to form a government if they come the leader with the second best chance gets twenty eight days to try and failing that it can go to a third candidate stephanie decker joins us live from west jerusalem so two claims of victories overnight is it any clearer for israelis waking up today who the real winner is. it is much clearer there's only one man who really can be prime minister and everything indicating that it is going to be benjamin netanyahu for a fifth term why because it's

a basic game of math really when it comes to politics here sadly regardless of which party gets the most votes it is the smaller parties that have to add up those numbers say you are mentioning that in the knesset over sixty one seats where we stand at the moment as you mentioned almost one hundred percent of the vote counted is that the right wing bloc the likud bloc sixty five seats and dances block so to speak fifth. there are still some tweaks to be expected two hundred thousand votes still to be counted particularly from the soldiers so there could be some tweaks when it comes to which party is it going into the threshold or not but the bigger picture is this it looks like this is going to be a more right wing government than we have been before that where we've had before certainly yesterday watching the campaigning of benjamin netanyahu he was relentless on me to the bitter end he was on facebook he was on messenger he was on twitter he even went to the beach after he voted telling people to get out of the water to vote and then to return he was relentless knowing the pressure he was under it was a huge test for him really people we were speaking to during the day all right

wingers but questioning whether it was time for him to go but i think looking at the polls israel has decided that it seems that they want him to remain the prime minister and he will if this all works out to his advantage which really does seem at this point in time will become the longest serving prime minister of the state of israel or he may have done well at the ballot box so far what about in coal what about the corruption charges how they're going to affect him. this is absolutely the major question just because he seems to have won it does not mean he is out of the water what it tells you is that israelis pretty much are not too concerned about this corruption charges but we were told yesterday throughout the day they said while all politicians are corrupt the main message was that that wasn't a deal breaker but the attorney general is determined to indict him he has one here and he has one chance to put his case for there are three corruption cases be hanging over him there's another case which is a far more serious one sami which is the submarine scandal that is being looked into

a lot of people we've spoken to over the past few weeks political commentators former advisors to prime ministers will tell you that there is a real possibility that perhaps he will not survive the next ten months because of the pressures there is also a possibility that he's going to try to get this new government to possum kind of new bill to get him immune to any kind of indictments but it's all up in the air but i think yes he may have won seemingly now but he is certainly not out of the waters and there's still a big question mark about how those charges are going to play out time will tell thanks so much stephanie. now sudan's president is under increasing pressure as western nations are very voice to the calls for political change protesters continue to sitting outside the compound housing on one of the shias residence and the army headquarters overnight at least twenty people have been killed since saturday police have been ordered not to confront them straight says u.s. britain and norway have issued a joint statement urging authorities to deliver a credible plan for

a political transition. for who wants to remain anonymous told al-jazeera the sit in will continue until president bashir steps down. on their disdain for the. oppressed he did not have any rights for the first time ever have some freedom. speech expressing ourselves. so basically we are expecting a good thing where more than a million years or so concern about or take the list which is the thirty three things very quickly those members of the militias packing up since the start of this but then everything alight in the pot we are in that critical region. the security forces that the kampala implying. they're shooting again with the. us the peaceful armed but the kurds in the crowd why i think you guys i mean you

see we have many injuries there's a limit to the opinions of the lower rank officers there standing by the people to all these is happening with them with the hi i'm not buying and they're they're they're they're raising that. they don't have on this of the people lower down officers that they're defending us in the previous attacks. algeria's interim leader says they'll be free and fair elections within three months. says he has no political ambitions of his own will set up an independent committee to oversee the poll but many algerians remain skeptical about forte's. 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 our lives he's beautifully designed his decision followed weeks of unprecedented protests against his boo but 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 begin 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 year 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 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 appointment and they are determined to push for a real change that we have come out today in order to oppose ben salah. ben feller leave we don't need you. we're here so the ones who are governing the country leave because they are robbing and not building the country they're destroying i was serious political crisis began in february when president put a plea he would be seeking a fifth term in office he'd been in power since nineteen ninety nine but barely seen in public since suffering 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 algeria's 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. now the un security council will hold another emergency meeting on the situation in libya if fighting continues there dozens of people have been killed in recent days including at least thirty five thousand loyal to warlords and if a hostile his forces are trying to take the capital it's forced the un's envoy to libya to perspire on a national reconciliation conference which was supposed to happen next week and the u.n. is trying to get refugees out of detention centers near tripoli these are people

who've come to libya from other countries in the hope of crossing the mediterranean sea and reaching europe ahead of the un's refugee agency tells our desire the fighting is making the task of moving people to safety difficult. 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 with many parts of the country controlled by militias by armed groups but now the danger has escalated 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 terrible detention centers to a safer place but for how long we be able to do that unless. the secretary general has called i don't know. still to come on al-jazeera dire warnings from the u.n. about what's happening in. reports on the hopes and aspirations of people in

india a day before voting in the general election. has the wolf of spring is leaked away from the netherlands and germany is the winds become a northerly and underneath this masterclass stretching from greece through france and germany to england it's disappointing weather is 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 where the sun is out further west that northerly breeze suggests shelvey building of a spade and verbally erik's 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 in 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 here left behind for back into its city as well from the west and that's right is probably be full of showers some of which but not many will be pushed down to the coast out geria or tunisia the sun's out in morocco eighteen degrees just rising to ninety was disappointing i think in algiers and also in libya all nurses center of circulation forming there receives a very big shout recently in nigeria and ghana they're still there but just the north in the sahara all tensions are really quite high. india is in the midst of a high tech revolution with over one billion.